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OLD  GLASGOW  WEAVERS 


BEING 

Records  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers. 

WITH  EIGHT  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


BY 

Deacon  ROBT.  D.  M'EWAN. 


Re-issue  of  Secoml  Edition  with  an  Appendix  by  Gborue  Neilson,  LL.D.,  F.S. A. 
(Scot.) ;  Report  of  Proceedings  at  Meeting  of  3rd  September,  1915,  when  Honorary 
Membership  of  the  Incorporation  was  conferred  on  the  Right  Honoui’ahle 
The  E.ARL  of  Ro.SEBERY,  K.G.,  K.T.,  etc.  ;  Lecture  delivered  by  Ex-Deacon 
M'Ewan  to  the  Textile  Society,  Technical  College,  Glasgow  ;  and  also  Revision 
of  Membership  Roll  to  date. 


GLASGOW  ; 

CARSON  &  NICOL,  LIMITED,  12  &  14  BATH  STREET. 


MCMXVI. 


FOREWORD. 


The  present  Deacon  has  shown  the  great  interest  he  takes  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Incorporation,  not  only  by  the  attention  he  has  given  to 
the  ordinary  work  of  his  office,  but  by  his  researches  among  the  old 
records  of  the  craft.  As  the  handwriting  of  these  I’ecords  is  in  the 
characters  to  be  found  in  ancient  Scottish  documents,  and  now  difficult 
to  decipher,  their  contents  were  necessarily  available  to  very  few, 
and  to  these  only  after  much  labour.  With  the  aid  of  an  expert 
in  such  writings  the  Deacon  had  a  number  of  the  old  documents 
transcribed,  and  on  the  results  being  shown  to  the  Master  Court  it 
was  resolved  that  it  was  in  the  interests  of  the  Incorporation  that  the 
transcriptions  should  be  printed  in  book  form. 

The  Deacon  kindly  consented  to  see  the  proposed  volume  through 
the  press,  cla.ssifying  the  transcriptions  and  writing  explanatory  and 
connecting  notes,  but  without  attempting  to  produce  a  formal  history 
of  the  Incorporation. 

In  placing  the  result  before  the  Incorporation,  the  Master  Court 
trust  that  this  glimpse  of  its  past  history  will  stimulate  an  interest 
in  its  present  affairs,  and  that  the  members  of  to-day  will  emulate 
their  predecessors  in  doing  what  they  can  to  promote  the  continued 
prosperity  of  this  old  Incorporation. 

In  Name  and  by  Authority  of  the  Master  Court. 

C.  J.  MACLEAN, 

Clerk. 


115  St.  Vincent  Street, 

Glasgow,  1st  September,  1905. 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2018  with  funding  from 
Getty  Research  Institute 


https://archive.org/details/oldglasgowweaverOOinco 


PREFACE. 


The  matter  available  has  not  been  such  as  to  make  a  continuous 
record  possible.  For  facility  of  reference  it  has  been  thought  advisable 
to  classify  the  extracts,  necessarily  somewhat  arbitrarily,  in  Chapters, 
and  to  dispense  with  a  detailed  Index.  With  few  exceptions  the 
extracts  have,  in  each  chapter,  been  arranged  chronologically. 

The  Minute  and  other  Books  now  awanting  were  first  missed  in 
1849,  as  is  shown  in  an  acknowledgment  then  granted  by  a  new 
clei'k  for  other  books. 

It  may  add  to  the  reader’s  interest  to  have  the  following 
Chronological  Table  for  reference : — 

1488 — Janies  IV.,  King  of  Scotland. 

1513 — Flodden.  Janies  V.  succeeds  to  the  throne. 

1542— Queen  Mary. 

1550-60  —Reformation. 

1567 — Janies  VI. 

1603 — James  succeeds  to  English  throne. 

1611 — Glasgow  made  a  Royal  Burgh. 

1625 — Charles  I. 

1649 — Commonwealth  in  England. 

1651 — Charles  II.  crowned  in  Scotland. 

Scotland  United  to  English  Commonwealth  by  Cromwell. 

1660— Charles  II.  restored  and  Episcopacy  revived. 

1685 — James  II.  and  VII. 

1689— William  of  Orange.  Re-establishment  of  Presbyterianism. 

1702 — Queen  Anne. 

1707 — Legislative  Union  of  England  and  Scotland. 

1714 —  George  I. 

1715 —  First  Newspaper  published  in  Glasgow.  First  Jacobite  rising. 

1727 — George  II. 

1745 —  Second  Jacobite  rising. 

1746 —  Culloden. 

1760 — George  III. 

1820— George  IV. 

1830— William  IV. 

1837 — Queen  Victoria. 

The  writer  desires  to  acknowledge  much  kindly  help  received, 
especially  from  the  Clerk,  Mr.  C.  J.  MacLean ;  and  from  Mr.  Robert 
Renwick,  Depute  Town  Clerk  of  the  City. 


VI 


PREFACE. 


There  were  many  documents  and  articles  available  for  illustration, 
of  which  comparatively  few  members  were  able  to  examine  the 

originals.  Such  of  them  have  been  chosen  for  reproduction  as  are 
most  likely  to  be  interesting  to  the  wider  circle  which  this  book  is 
intended  to  reach. 

If  any  apology  is  needed  for  including  the  plate  of  the  present 
members  of  the  Master  Court,  it  has  been  done  entirely  on  the 

writer’s  responsibility,  believing  that  had  portraits  been  available  of 
those  who  were  in  a  similar  position  fifty  or  a  hundred  years  back 
it  would  now  have  been  of  surpassing  interest,  and  that,  should  this 
volume  survive,  our  sons  and  grandsons  will  have  a  similar  interest. 
Every  effort  has  been  made  to  avoid  errors ;  it  is,  however,  hardly 
possible  but  that  some  have  been  made  and  that  others  have  escaped 
the  eye  of  one  who  is  not  only  an  amateur,  but  a  novice,  at 
such  work. 

ROBERT  D.  M‘EWAN. 

22  Montrose  Street, 

Glasgow,  1st  Sept.,  1905. 


NOTE  TO  SECOND  EDITION. 


The  want  of  an  Inventory  detailing  all  the  very  interesting  hooks  and  papers  found 
to  he  in  the  po.ssession  of  the  Incorporation  in  the  course  of  preparing  this  hook  was 
felt  hy  many  memhers  to  he  a  serious  omission. 

The  writer  had  not  sufficient  antiquarian  knowledge  to  prepare  this  list,  hut 
Dr.  George  Neilson,  F.S.A.,  etc.,  has  been  good  enough  to  give  the  Incorjjoration  the 
henetit  of  his  great  experience,  and  there  is  now  included  in  Appendix  VI.  a  complete 
Inventory. 

At  the  same  time  it  has  heen  thought  advisable  to  include  a  copy  of  the  last 
revision  of  the  Continuous  Roll,  having  in  view  that  entries  there  might  disclose  to 
present  members  that  the  immediate  forebears  of  men  now  living  had  been  members, 
and  the  Master  Court  invite  the  help  of  present  members  to  bring  such  within  the 
membership  of  the  Incorporation. 

R.  D.  M‘E. 


June,  1908. 


INDEX. 


Chapter  Page 

I. — Origin  and  Early  History, . -  -  1 

11. — Constitution,  ----------  12 

III. — Apprenticeship  and  Freemanship,  ------  22 

lY. — Trade  Privileges, . 35 

V. — Relation  to  Trades’  House  and  Care  of  the  Poor  of 

THE  Craft,  - . 42 

Yl. — Supervision  of  Tradesmanship,  ------  47 

YH. — Meetings  and  Places  of  Meeting,  -----  59 

YHI. — Discipline,  ----------  62 

IX. — Money  Matters,  ---------  73 

X. — Legislation  and  Litigation,  -------  86 

XL — Relations  with  Gorp>als  and  Bridgend  AYeavers,  -  -  95 

XII. — Relations  with  Calton  and  Bl.4Ckfaulds  AA'eavers,  -  -  107 

XHL— Social  Matters,  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  115 

XrV. — Property  held  by  Incorporation,-  -  -  -  -  -  118 

XA''. — Burials  and  Mortcloths,  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  122 

XAH.— The  AA^eayer  in  Public  Affairs, . 126 

XA"H. — ^Later  History,  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  131 

APPENDIX. 

I. — Master  Court,  1904-5, . -  -  -  136 

H. — Laws  and  Regulations,  also  Table  of  Entrance  Fees,  -  137 

HI. — Tabulated  Statement,  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  149 

lY. — List  of  Deacons  and  Clerks,  -  -  -  -  -  -  150 

V. — Names  of  Present  Members,  -  -  -  -  -  -  154 

A^I. — Inventory  of  Old  Minute  Books,  Documents,  etc.,  -  -  167 

YH. — Copy  of  Roll  Revised  in  1863  and  Continued  till  Aug.,  1916,  191 

AHH. — Report  of  Proceedings  when  Hon.  Membership  conferred 

ON  Lord  Rosebery, . 212 

IX. — Lecture  to  Textile  Society  by  Ex-Deacon  M‘Ewan,  -  -  217 


INDEX. 


viii 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Plate 


Paoe 


I. — Page  of  Minute  Book,  8th  February,  1658,  showing  a 

REFERENCE  TO  THE  INCORPORATION  HAVING  BEEN  IN 


EXISTENCE  IN  1514,  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  Frontispiece 

II.  — Seal  of  Cause,  1605,  -------  to  face  1 

III.  — Titles  of  Corbal  Lands,  -------  96 

IV.  — Titles  of  Eddleston  Manse  (in  Latin),  -  -  -  -  120 

V. — Deacon’s  Box,  Snuff-Box,  Bell,  and  Shuttles,  -  -  -  8 

VI. — Collector’s  Box,  Horn,  and  [Mallet, . 16 

VII. — Seals  on  Documents  reproduced  as  Plates  III.  and  IV.,  -  112 

VIII. — Group  of  Master  Court  of  Incorporation,  1904-5,  -  -  136 


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OLD  GLASGOW  WEAVERS: 

BEING 

RECORDS  OF  THE  INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS. 


I. 

ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 

The  records  of  the  Incorporation  have  had  a  varied  fate,  some 
of  the  earliest  having  survived  while  the  history  of  the  middle  age 
of  the  craft  is  a  complete  blank.  All  records  for  sixty  to  seventy 
years  in  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  have  disappeared,  and 
from  1683  till  1793  there  are  no  minute  books  extant.  It  has  always 
been  believed  that  the  Incorporation  owes  its  existence  to  a  “  Gift  or 
Seal  of  Cause  by  the  Magistrates  and  Town  Council  of  Glasgow, 
with  concurrence  of  the  Archbishop,  dated  4th  June,  1528.”  Mr. 
Crawfurd  so  states  in  “A  Sketch  of  the  Trades’  House  of  Glasgow,” 
published  in  1856,  and  in  a  small  pamphlet  published  by  this  Incorpora¬ 
tion  in  1888,  the  preamble  of  the  Act  of  Parliament  passed  in  1681 
(given  on  a  later  page),  is  quoted  as  the  actual  wording  of  the 
Seal  of  Cause  granted  by  the  Magistrates  of  Glasgow,  on  4th  June, 
1528.  No  copy  of  that  document  has  been  preserved. 

A  small  minute  book,  commencing  in  1591  and  concluding  in 
1611,  and  a  larger  minute  book,  dated  from  1611  till  1683,  have 


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ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


been  preserved.  In  this  latter,  on  8th  February,  1658,  the  following 

appears: —  ^  ... 

Octavo  Februanj  1658. 

The  haill  old  actis  extractit  out  of  the  huikis  for  the  yeir  1514,  and  sen 

syne,  war  red  and  allowit  and  approvine  and  farder  it  is  statut  and  ordanit,  with 
consent  of  the  haill  hodie  of  the  calling,  that  rpihat  prenteis  sail  fie  himself  heirefter 
to  serve  his  maister  on  his  awin  meit,  sail  have  no  benefeit  of  the  calling  thairefter, 

and  the  maister  to  pay  in  to  the  calling  twentie  pnndis  Scottis;  as  also  that  ilk 

brother  quhais  staikis  sail  be  fund  wrang,  sail  pay  in  to  the  craft  twa  markis  ane 
half,  extending  to  xxxij  s.  iiij  d.  for  ilk  fault. 

The  page  of  minute  book  from  which  above  is  extracted  is  given 
as  Plate  I.  There  is  every  reason  to  regard  the  date  as  genuine, 

because  were  it  supposed  to  be  a  blunder  for  1614,  the  same  book  has 
within  itself  the  records  for  1614  and  would  not  be  referred  to  as 

‘old  actis  extractit  out  of  the  buikis.”  The  Incorporation  has  therefore 
had  an  existence  of  nearly  four  hundred  years.  The  Provost  and 
Magistrates  granted  a  Seal  of  Cause  on  16th  February,  1605,  which 
document  exists  in  a  good  state  of  preservation  and  is  reproduced 
as  Plate  II.  The  wording  of  it  is  as  follows: — 

Seal  of  Cause  by  the  Provost,  Bailies,  and  community 

of  Glasgow  to  tlie  Incorporation  of  Weavers,  dated 

16  February,  1605. 

To  ALL  and  sundrie  To  quhome  it  efteiris  To  quhais  knawledge  thir  presentis 
sail  com.  The  proveist,  baillies,  counsall  and  communitie  of  the  buvght  and  citie  of 
Glasgow  greiting  in  God  ewirlasting.  Witis  yowr  Wniversitie  that  the  day  and  dait 
of  thir  presentis  compeirit  befoir  ws  the  deikin,  heidismen  and  maisteris  of  Wobstercraft 
and  presentit  to  ws  sitand  in  judgement  our  counsall  gadderit,  thair  petitioune  and 
supplicatioune  makand  mentioune.  That  quliair  thay  had  grantit  wnto  tliame  ane 
Lettere  of  deikenlieid  for  the  weill  of  thair  craft  and  commoune  weill  of  this  burght 
and  all  and  sindrie  our  soverane  lordis  leigis  duelland  and  repairand  within  the 
samine  haveing  to  do  withe  thame  in  thair  calling  and  ocupatioune.  In  the  quhilk 
thair  Lettere  of  deikinlieid  was  conteinit  certane  liberties  and  priviledgis  of  certane 
penulties  and  wnlawis  applyit  of  auld  to  certane  superstitious  usis  quhilkis  now 
cannot  be  applyit  thairto  be  ressoune  of  the  reforrnatioune  thairof.  Tliairfoir  desyring 
that  thair  said  Lettere  of  deikinlieid  may  be  reformit  and  renewit  keipand  the  effect 
and  substance  of  thair  said  former  Lettere  of  deikinhead  and  the  saidis  penulties 
applyit  to  the  said  former  superstitious  usis  to  be  applyit  to  sick  gnid  and  godlie 
usis  as  ar  underurittin.  Quhilk  tliair  desyre  and  petitioune  We  the  proveist,  baillies, 
counsall,  and  communitie  of  tlie  said  burght  lindand  expedient  and  ressonable  lies 
grantit  and  consentit  lyk  as  be  the  tennour  heirof,  grantis  and  consentis  that  the 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


3 


said  Lettere  of  deikenlieid  grantit  of  auld  to  the  said  wobstercraft  be  renewit  and 
reformit  in  nianir  and  forme  wndirvrittin  :  First  tliat  all  manir  of  prenteissis  to  be  taine 
bund  be  ony  of  the  said  craft  sail  reinaine  prenteis  be  the  spaice  of  sewin  yeiris 
anil  na  les  without  dispensatioune  of  the  said  principall  maisteris  of  the  said  craft 
and  speciallie  an  barges  soneis  that  salbe  ressaveit  prenteis  in  the  said  craft.  Secundlie 
that  ilk  prenteis  that  salbe  bund  to  the  said  craft  (barges  soneis  of  the  said  craft 
being  exceptit)  sail  pay  at  thair  entrie  to  be  prenteis  fourtie  schillingis  money  to  the 
help  and  confort  of  thair  decayit  hrethereine  of  the  said  craft  and  uther  godlie  and 
guid  workis  as  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  the  said  craft  sail  think  expedient  barges 
craftismen  soneis  of  the  said  craft  [layand  onlie  thretteine  schillingis  four  pennyis 
conforme  to  auld  use  and  wount  and  that  na  prenteis  nor  uther  persoune  of  the  said 
craft  unfrieman  be  suttirit  to  set  up  ane  boithe  within  the  said  burght  without  he  be 
fund  ane  sufficient  exjiert  craftisman  of  the  said  craft  and  admitit  be  the  deikin  and 
maisteris  of  the  said  craft  beand  first  admitit  burges  and  frieman  of  the  said  burght. 
And  give  he  be  ane  owtintownis  man  not  learnit  prenteis  within  the  said  burght 
sail  pay  for  his  upset  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  the  said  craft  the  sowme  of 
tuentie  pundis  money ;  and  give  he  be  ane  learnit  prenteis  within  the  towne  sail 

pay  tuentie  markis  monej^  of  upset ;  and  give  he  [be]  ane  burges  sone  of  the  said 
craft  sail  pay  four  pundis  of  upset  conforme  to  auld  us  and  wount  quhilk  salbe 
applyit  be  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  to  the  weill  and  support  of  the  decayit 
brethreine  of  thair  said  craft.  And  that  na  manir  of  persoune  frieman  of  the  said 
craft  resaife  in  serveice  with  him  ane  uther  manis  prenteis  or  servand  to  work  with 
him  in  the  said  craft  without  he  obteine  licence  of  his  maister  or  utherwayis  that 
he  be  frie  at  his  maisteris  handis  and  haife  comptit  with  and  qnhatsumewir  persoune 
of  the  said  craft  dois  in  the  contrar  the  samine  being  tryit  be  the  deikin  and 
maisteris  thairof  sail  pay  to  the  said  deikin  and  maisteris  of  the  said  craft  ane 
wnlaw  of  saxteine  schillingis.  b'erdlie  that  ilk  frieman  of  the  said  craft  hauldand 
buithe  or  hows  within  this  burght  sail  pay  oulklie  twa  pennyis  to  the  help  and 

supplie  of  the  new  erectit  hospitall  erectit  be  the  craftis  within  this  burght,  and 
that  na  craftisman  of  the  said  craft  tak  na  man  nor  womanis  work  upone  hand 
without  he  have  sufficient  and  guid  worklumis  and  sua  fund  and  tryit  be  the  said 
deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  quhairby  the  said  work  may  be  sufficientlie  wrocht  and 
not  spilt :  And  quhasoewir  spillis  ony  man  or  womanis  work  throw  wnsufficient 
worklumis  sail  pay  ane  wnlaw  of  saxteine  schillingis  to  the  said  deikin  and  maisteris 
of  craft  to  thair  commoune  box ;  And  it  salbe  leasum  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris 
of  craft  to  sicht  the  samine,  and  give  it  beis  fund  wnsufficientlie  wrocht  be  the 

craftisman  worker  thairof  it  salbe  leasum  to  thame  to  compryse  the  same  in  the 

craftismanis  handis  and  the  pairtie  to  be  satistiet  and  recompensit  according  to  the 
skaithe.  And  siclyk  that  it  sail  not  be  leasum  to  na  man  of  the  said  craft  to  tack 
ony  uther  manis  work  that  is  warpit  of  befoir  without  leife  of  the  deikin  under  the 
paine  of  saxteine  schillingis  to  be  payit  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft.  Item, 
give  ony  owtintownis  wobsteris  takis  work  out  of  this  burght  to  work  without  the 
samine  being  apprehendit  with  himselfe  salt  pay  to  the  said  deikin  and  maisteris  of 
craft  for  the  tyme  twa  pennyis  money  how  aft  and  sa  oft  as  thai  tak  work  furth  of 


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ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


the  towne  with  ane  frie  denner  to  the  said  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  or  ellis  the 
sowme  of  tuentie  sax  schillingis  aucht  pennyis  thairfoir  togidder  with  sax  schillingis 
audit  pennyis  as  for  ane  pund  of  waix  conteinit  in  thair  auld  lettere  of  deikenheid 
to  be  applyit  to  the  coninioune  us  of  the  said  craft  and  help  of  thair  decayit 
hrethreine ;  and  give  ony  owttintownis  wobster  beis  apprehendit  bringand  in  work 
sail  pay  on  lie  tua  pennyis  how  aft  he  beis  apprehendit  with  the  sainine  to  be  applyit  as 
said  is.  And  farder  give  ony  owtintownis  wobster  presentis  or  bringis  to  the  markat 
of  the  said  burght  ony  wobis  wrocbt  be  thameself  without  the  said  bnrght,  to  be 
sauld  as  thair  awin  work  sail  pay  for  ilk  wob  the  sowrae  of  tua  pennyis  money  to 
be  applyit  to  the  commoune  use  of  the  said  craft  as  said  is :  And  for  exerseising 
and  observeing  of  the  statutis  abovewrittin  it  salbe  leasum  to  the  heidismaisteris 
and  remanent  of  the  said  craft  yeirlie  to  elect  and  chuise  thame  ane  deikin  and 
maisteris  of  the  said  craft  quhome  the  proveist  baillies  and  counsall  of  the  said  burght 
for  the  tyme,  sail  approve  and  defend  in  all  thair  leasum  actis  and  statutis  for  the 
commoune  weill  of  this  burght  and  M'eill  of  the  said  craft,  and  give  ony  brother  of 
the  said  craft  dissobeyis  the  said  deikin  in  using  and  executing  of  his  said  ofFeice 
sail  pay  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  the  sowme  of  fourtie  schillingis  money 
with  ane  wnlaw  of  saxteine  schillingis  to  the  baillies;  And  for  inbringing  of  all  and 
sindrie  the  sadis  unlawis  to  the  effect  and  us  foirsaid  it  salbe  leasum  to  ane  officer 
of  the  said  craft  chosin  and  admitit  be  the  deikin  and  maisteris  thairof  accompanyit 
with  ane  of  the  otficeris  of  the  said  burght  to  jras  and  poynd  all  and  sindrie  persounis 
of  the  said  craft  for  the  saidis  wnlawis.  Quhilkis  haill  heidis,  statutis,  and  priviledgis 
abovewrittin  We  the  proveist,  baillies,  and  counsall  of  the  said  burght  undersubscryveand 
for  ws  and  our  successouris  in  oiFeice  ratifies  and  appreifis  and  interponis  our  authoritie 
thairto  in  all  tyme  cuming :  In  witnes  quhairof  to  thir  presentis  wreitin  be  Williame 
Fleming  at  command  of  Archibald  Heygait,  cowrt  clerk  of  our  said  burght  subscrivit 
be  our  handis  and  be  our  said  clerk  at  our  command  the  commoune  seall  of  our 
burght  is  to  hung.  At  our  said  burght  the  saxteine  day  of  Februar  the  yeir  of  God 
jm  and  fyve  yeiris. — Signed  by  Sir  G.  Elphinstoun,  provost,  Thomas  Muir, 

baillie,  Johne  Andersoun,  baillie,  AVilliam  Anderson,  baillie,  Robt.  Stevin,  William 
Stirling,  Johne  Nisbit,  James  Fischer,  James  Bell,  Wm.  Robisoune,  Robert  Rowat, 
Mathow  Trumble,  deane  of  gild,  Wm.  Petersone,  William  Wallace,  James  Lyonis, 
Johne  Rowat,  Thomas  Pettegrew,  Johne  Woddrop,  H.  Conynghame,  W.  Fleimyng. 

[P.S.]  Ita  est  Archibaldus  Heygait  scriba  dicti  burgi  de  mandatis  Joannis  Diksoun 
et  Joannis  Scot  duorum  virorum  consiliariorum  scribere  nescien  signavit. 

(City’s  Common  Seal  in  good  preservation). 

It  will  be  observed  that  here  the  seed  is  sown  of  the  charitable 
work  of  the  Incorporation,  which  then  was  only  an  incident,  but  now 
has  become  the  principal  reason  of  its  existence.  The  earlier  deed  of 
1528,  made  in  time  of  James  V.,  shows  that  the  country  was  then 
under  Roman  Catholicism,  while  the  later,  made  in  James  VI.’s  reign, 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


5 


shows  that  a  better  use  could  be  made  of  the  funds  of  the  craft 

than  consumino-  them  in  wax  candles.  The  minute  of  meetiim  on 

30th  March,  1605,  shows  how  the  cost  of  obtaining  the  letters  of 

Deaconhood  was  liquidated  : — 

Die  -xxx  Marcij  1605. 

The  quhilk  clay,  the  haill  bretherene  of  craft  concliscendis  that  every  ane  of  the 
fremen  of  the  craft  pay  thair  awin  pairtis  of  the  xl.  mark  borrowit  fra  William 
Woderspoone  in  obteinyng  of  tliair  lettir  of  deakinheid,  and  that  betuix  and  Witsonnday 
nixt. 

In  1681  a  further  Charter  was  granted  by  the  Archbishop  of 

Glasgow,  and  ratitied  by  Act  of  Parliament  on  17th  September,  1681  : — 

Charter  by  Arthur,  Archbisliop  of  Glasgow,  in  favor  of 
the  Incorporation  of  Weavers,  Glasgow,  dated  19  July 
1681. 

Be  it  knoun  to  all  men  be  thir  present  letteris  Ws  Arthur  by  the  mercy  of 

God  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  Lord  of  the  Lordship  barrony  and  regality  therof : 

Forsameikle  as  the  deacon  masteris  and  I'emanent  bretheren  of  the  Incorporatioune  of 
the  weavers  within  tlie  burgh  of  Glasgow  Be  their  supplicatioune  given  in  to  ws  lies 
desyred  our  ratiticatioune  and  confirmation  of  ane  former  Gift  granted  to  them  be  the 
inagistratis  and  counsell  of  Glasgow  with  consent  of  the  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  for 
the  tyme,  with  the  alteration  of  some  small  dewes  formerlie  used  to  be  payed  be 

the  said  trade  for  the  service  of  alters  and  utherwayes  thairinspecifeit  the  tyme  of 

superstition  and  poprie :  Whilk  supplicatioune  maketh  mention: — That  wheras  his 
Majestic  conform  to  the  laudable  custome  of  all  weill  governed  nations,  lies  for  the 
benefeit  of  his  leidges  and  his  oun  special  1  service  erected  burghs  royall  within  this 
kingdome  not  only  with  severall  priviledges  and  authorities  in  themselves,  hot  also 
with  power  to  establish  particular  Societies  and  Incorporatiounes  for  particular  trades 
within  themselves  with  severall  immunities  and  liberties,  conform  quhairunto  the  Citie 
of  Glasgow  hes  erected  the  Societie  of  the  Weavers  within  their  burgh,  with  consent 
ratiticatioune  and  approbatioune  of  the  most  reverend  father  in  God,  Gawin,  Archbishop 
of  Glasgow,  and  hes  impowered  them  to  creat  deacons  to  establish  ordouris  for 
regulatioune  of  their  trade  and  impose  fynes  upon  trespasseris  of  the  sanieii  as  the 
said  Gift  and  Chartour  of  the  dait  at  Glasgow  the  fourt  day  of  Junij  j"'  v'  twenty 
eight  yeirs  at  lenth  heirs.  Which  particular  fynes  being  either  established  as  furnishing 
for  the  superstitions  of  the  popish  tyines  and  services  or  in  such  rates  as  are  now 
inconsiderable  by  the  act  of  parliament  King  James  the  sixt  parliament  eleventh 
caput — Are  extended  ilk  pund  or  penny  of  old  unlaw  to  be  now  ten  and  proportionally. 
Lykas  your  grace  being  every  way  most  competent  both  as  superiour  and  patron  of 
the  burgh  and  as  Archbishop  of  the  ISea  and  province  to  make  a  conversion,  innova- 
tioune  and  destinatioune  of  the  particular  fynes  of  old  superstitiously  bestowed  on 
their  blind  devotions — now  to  be  applyed  to  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  said  craft  as 


6 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


your  grace  shall  think  titt.  As  also  that  necessar  it  is  that  your  graces  authority 
be  obtained  for  punishing  of  persons  living  without  the  bownds  of  the  touns  juiis- 
dictions  and  authority  and  wdthin  the  bownds  of  your  graces  regality  conform  to  our 
former  rightis  granted  and  confirmed  to  ws.  Therfor  your  graces  petitiouneris  humbly 
beggs  your  grace  wold  be  pleased  to  signe  a  Charter  and  grant  containing  your 
confirmation  of  our  former  rights  with  the  conversion  and  destinatioune  to  pious  uses 
as  is  thairin  at  length  exprest.  Atid  in  speciall  Wheras  incommers  weavers  taking 
out  the  stuff  aff  the  toun  to  work  or  utherwayes  incroacliing  within  the  burgh  wpon 
their  liberties  and  priviledges  when  apprehended  are  of  old  appoynted  to  be  fyned  in 
a  pund  of  Avax  and  a  dinner  to  the  maisteris  of  the  craft  Avhich  was  occasion  of 
needles  expences  Avithout  good  to  the  poor  your  grace  Avoid  appoynt  twentie  pounds 
for  the  poor  of  the  trade  in  place  of  Avax  and  dinner.  And  (luhairas  by  the  said 
old  gifts  ilk  prenteis  Avas  to  pay  fyve  shilling  Scotis  your  grace  Avoid  alloAv  conform 
to  the  .said  act  of  parliament  fyftie  shilling  Scotis,  and  Avhere  ilk  ncAv  Avpsetter  payes 
this  to  he  conform  to  their  old  richts.  Item  Who  takes  Avork  ajid  does  not  compleitly 
doe  the  same  Avere  formerly  to  pay  a  ))und  of  Avax,  and  avIio  did  take  another  mans 
work  OAA'er  his  head  to  pay  a  pund  of  wax.  Item,  disobeyeris  of  the  deacon  to  he 
fyned  in  a  pund  of  Avax  and  als  much  to  the  magistrats  Avhilk  are  all  but  mean 
fynes  and  inconsiderable.  Therfor  your  j^etitioneris  also  humbly  beggs  your  grace  to 
alloAv  for  ilk  i)und  of  Avax  as  aforsaid  the  soum  of  foure  pundis  Scotis  and  accordingly 
to  authorize  the  said  trade  to  exact  the  samen  having  your  graces  authority  interponed 
thairto  as  the  .said  supplicatioune  in  itself  heirs.  Whilk  supplicatioune  being  taken 
to  our  serious  consideratioune,  and  linding  the  desyre  therof  most  reasonable  We  have 
not  only  ratilied  alloAved  and  a{»proA^en  as  Ave  heirhy  ratifie  allow  and  approve  the 
said  old  gifts  and  priviledges  granted  formerly  to  the  said  Aveaver  calling  in  the  haill 
heads  clarvssis  priviledges  and  immuiuties  therincontained  in  favouris  of  the  said  trade 
hot  also  conform  to  the  desyre  of  the  said  petition  AlloAves  them  to  exact  the  fynes 
in  manner  and  conform  as  is  therby  requyred  of  us  Wherunto  Ave  have  interponed 
and  interpones  our  authority  he  thir  presentis,  the  said  fynes  being  alhvayes  a2}plyed 
for  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  said  trade,  and  lies  converted  destinat  and  appoynted 
the  forsaid  small  fynes  uoav  augmented  as  said  is  conform  to  the  said  act  of  parliament 
and  formerly  payable  to  alters  to  tlie  use  of  the  ^'oor  of  the  said  calling  as  Ave  heirhy 
convert  destinat  and  apiioynt  them  to  l>e  payed  to  the  said  poor  accordingly.  In 
Avitnes  ([uhairof  Ave  have  subscrivit  thir  presentis  att  Glasgow  the  nynteenth  day  of 
July  j"‘  vj*'  eightie  ane  yeirs  befor  thir  Avitnessis  Mr  William  Nimnio  comisser  clerk 
of  GlasgoAv,  William  Guthrie,  our  servitour,  and  James  Muir,  Avryter  in  Glasgow  and 
Avryter  heirof  Our  seall  is  heirto  appended. 

WiL:  Nimmo,  wittnes  (Signed)  ARTH:  GLASCUEN. 

Will:  Guthrie,  wittnes 

Ratification  by  Parliament,  dated  17th  September, 
1681. 

Att  Edinburgh  the  Seventenith  day  of  September  One  thousand  Sex  hundred 
Eightie  one  years  Our  Soveraigne  Lord  with  advise  and  consent  of  Estates  of 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


Y 


Parliament  of  this  his  Majesties  ancient  Kingdoine  of  Scotland  Hes  Ratified  approven 

and  confirmed  and  be  thir  presents  Ratifies  approves  and  confirms  to  and  in  favor 

of  the  Deacone  Masters  and  remanent  Rretlieren  of  the  Incorporation  of  the  Weavers 
within  the  Bnrgh  of  Glasgow  and  their  successors  ane  Gift  or  Seal  of  Cause  made 
and  granted  by  the  Provost  Bailzies  Conncill  and  Commnnitie  of  the  Bnrgh  and 
Cittie  of  Glasgow  with  consent  of  the  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  for  the  time  in  favor 

of  the  weavers  of  the  said  Bnrgh  of  Glasgow  of  the  date  the  fourth  day  of  .June 

one  thousand  five  hundred  twentie  eight  yeares  Bearing  that  the  Maisters  of  the 
webstercraft  within  the  said  Burgh  and  Cittie  had  presented  ane  Supplication  to  the 
Magistrates  and  Councill  of  the  said  Burgh  of  Glasgow  makeing  mention  that  the 
said  Craft  Avas  misguided  and  destroyed  in  the  fault  of  good  rule  and  reformation 
of  the  Craft  and  good  statutes  to  have  been  made  therein  for  the  common  weill  of 
the  Realme  and  the  King’s  Leiges  of  the  said  Cittie  and  Town  and  therefor  they 
desyred  for  their  profeit,  the  Loving  of  God,  augmentation  of  the  Burgh,  and  to  the 

honor  of  St. - ^^to  he  their  Patron  these  points  and  articles  after  following — They 

are  to  say  that  seeing  all  encreasement  of  virtue  practick  and  knowledge  stand  in 
good  beginning  and  from  then’forth  To  continue  in  rise  and  persevere  to  finall  end 
That  frae  then’forth  all  manner  of  prentese  fees  to  have  been  taine  at  the  said 
Craft  should  stand  in  prenticeship  for  the  space  and  termes  of  fyve  years  and  no 
less,  without  dispensation  of  the  principall  maisters  of  the  said  Craft  and  speciall 
favour  of  the  commons  of  the  said  Craft  Secondlie  Ilk  prentice  to  pay  to  his  entrie 
to  the  reparation  and  upholding  of  divine  service  at  their  alter  fyve  shilling  of  money 
and  that  na  thir  prentice  nor  na  other  persone  of  the  Craft  be  suffered  to  sett  up 
ane  Buith  within  the  said  Burgh  and  Cittie  without  he  l)e  found  sufficient  and 

worthy  thereto  in  Practick  and  admitted  by  the  sworn  masters  of  the  Craft  and 
thereafter  to  he  made  a  freeman  of  the  Good-Town  Thirdlie  If  any  man  sett  up  a 
Buith  within  the  said  Burgh  and  Cittie  that  he  should  pay  for  his  upsett  two 

merks  money  To  the  reparation  and  upholding  of  devine  service  at  the  said  alter 
and  that  na  Jiiaister  of  the  Craft-house  harbour  or  resett  any  other  man’s  prentice 
or  servant  And  if  any  does  sicklyke  should  pay  ane  contribution  or  taxt  to  the 
said  altar  at  the  discretion  of  the  ])rincipal  Masters  of  the  said  Craft  and  the  cause 
thereof  to  be  reformed  by  them  Fourthlie  That  ilk  man  or  woman  iiaving  buith 
within  the  said  Burgh  and  Cittie  should  pay  ane  weekly  penny  to  the  reparation 
and  adorement  of  the  said  alter  ay  as  it  should  come  about  ami  that  no  Craftman 

of  the  said  Craft  take  no  man’s  or  woman’s  work  upon  hand  without  he  have  good 

workloomes  and  that  the  said  work  he  not  spoyled  But  at  the  Masters  of  the 
Craft’s  .sight  shall  be  maile  sufficient  and  who  falzied  thereintill  should  pay  a  pound 
of  wax  to  the  said  alter,  and  that  nae  man  take  another  man’s  work  that  is  warped 
of  before  without  leave  of  them  that  warped  it  under  a  pound  of  wax  of  paine 
sicklike  and  that  ilk  servant  of  the  said  Craft  exceptane  prentice  shall  pay  a  hapenny 
in  the  week  to  the  reparation  of  the  .said  Alter  and  it  shall  he  lawfull  to  the  haill 
Craft  to  choise  ane  Deacon  once  in  the  year  for  the  inbringing  of  all  their  statutes 

above  expressed — To  the  honor  and  reparation  of  the  said  Alter  of  St. - and 

where  any  persone  or  persones  disobays  the  Deacon  that  bees  chosen  for  the  tyme 


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OEIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


shall  pay  a  pound  of  wax  to  the  light  of  the  .said  alter  and  ane  unlaw  of  Eight 
Shilling  to  the  Provost  and  Bailzies  of  the  said  Town  and  any  certain  of  the 
Principall  Maisters  of  the  said  Craft  that  shall  happen  to  he  for  the  tyme  may 
have  full  faculty  leave  and  priviledge  with  ane  Officer  of  the  Town  (if  need  bees) 
To  pass  with  them  to  poynd  and  distrentzie  for  the  taking  inhringing  and  receiving 

of  the  duties  foresaid  To  the  sustentation  and  upholding  of  Gods  Service  and  St. - 

as  said  is  but  any  let  stop  or  impediment  wherefore  seeing  their  rationable  desyre 
and  Simple  Petitions  conforme  to  equitie  and  consonant  to  honor  and  policy  according 
to  the  use  and  custome  of  Great  Towms  of  honour  in  other  Realms  Desyred  that 
the  samen  might  be  Ratified  approved  and  confirmed  by  the  said  Provost  Bailzies 

and  Counciil  of  the  said  Burgh  with  which  desyres  articles  and  points  above  exprest 
and  every  one  of  them  maturely  and  diligentlie  advyzied  considered  and  fand  the 
same  to  the  honor  of  God  their  mother  of  Holykirk  The  augmentation  of  God’s 
service  the  comon  well  of  the  Kings  leiges  The  good  Town  of  Glasgow  aud  Inhabitants 
of  the  samen  and  Therefore  all  and  Sundrie  the  saids  desyres  points  and  articles  in 
form  manner  and  effect  above  expressed  The  saids  Provost  Bailzies  Counciil  and 
Community  of  the  said  Burgh  and  Citty  of  Glasgow  with  consent  authority  and 
approbatione  and  confirmation  of  ane  most  Reverend  Father  in  God  and  Speciall 

Lord  and  Regale  under  the  Kings  grace  Gavine  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  for  all  tyme 
to  come  in  perpetuall  memorie  Approved  Ratified  and  confirmed  and  because  the 
community  of  the  Websters’  Walks  wards  stents  and  bear  all  the  common  charges 
of  the  said  Town  That  if  ilk  outintoune  Webster  or  Landward  that  comes  within 

the  said  Towne  and  takes  the  stuff  thereof  shall  pay  ilk  tyme  they  are  tane  ane 

pound  of  wax  to  the  light  of  the  said  alter  Together  with  ane  free  dinner  to  the 

Maisters  of  the  said  Craft  and  this  to  be  done  with  consent  of  the  haill  Craft  as 

the  said  gift  or  Seal  of  Cause  having  the  Archbishop  and  Towns  seal  appended 
thereto  of  the  dait  foresaid  at  more  length  proports  And  in  like  manner  our  said 

Soveraigne  Lord  Hes  Ratified  approven  and  confirmed  and  by  thir  presents  Ratifies 

approves  and  confirms  to  and  in  favours  of  the  said  Deacone  Maisters  and  remanent 
Bretheren  of  the  said  Incorportion  of  the  Weavers  of  the  said  Burgh  of  Glasgow 
and  their  successors  ane  charter  of  confirmation  made  and  granted  by  ane  Reverend 
Father  in  God  Arthnre  by  the  mercy  of  God  now  Archbishop  of  Glasgow’  Lord  of 
the  Lordship  Barony  and  Regalitie  thereof  of  the  date  the  nyneteenth  day  of  July 
last  by  past  mentioning  forasmuch  as  the  Deacone  Masters  and  remanent  Bretheren 
of  the  Incorporation  of  the  Weavers  within  the  said  Rurgli  of  Glasgow  by  their 
supplication  given  into  the  said  Archbishop  his  Grace  had  desyred  his  Ratification 
and  Confirmation  of  the  said  former  Gift  granted  to  them  by  the  Magistrates  and 
Counciil  of  Glasgow  wdth  consent  of  the  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  for  thetyme  With 
the  alteration  of  some  small  dues  formerlie  used  to  be  payed  by  the  said  Trade  for 
the  Service  of  Altar.s,  and  otlierways  above  and  therein  specified  the  time  of  Super¬ 
stition  and  Popery  Which  supplication  maketh  mention  That  whereas  His  Majestie 
conform  to  the  laudable  custome  of  weill  governed  Nationes  Hes  for  the  benefit  of 
his  Leidges  and  his  own  speciall  service  erected  Burghs  Royal  within  this  Kingdome 
not  only  wdth  severall  priviledges  and  authorities  in  themselves  But  also  with  power 


Plate  V. 


Deacon’s  Box. 


The  Old  Wynd  Society  Thkoaying  Shuttle  Snuff-box. 


(See  Page  120). 


& 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


9 


to  establish  particular  Societies  and  Incorporations  for  particular  Trades  within 
themselves  with  several  immunities  and  Liberties  conforme  whereunto  the  City  of 
Glasgow  has  erected  the  Society  of  the  Weavers  within  their  Burgh  until  consent 
Ratification  and  Confirmation  of  tlie  said  most  Reverend  Father  in  God  Gavine 
Archbishop  of  Glasgow  and  lies  impowered  them  to  create  Deacons  to  establisli  orders 
for  Regulation  of  their  Trade  and  to  impose  fynes  upon  the  Trespassers  of  the  sanien 
As  the  said  Gift  and  Charter  of  the  date  the  said  fourth  day  of  June  One  Thousand 
Five  Hundred  Twentie-eight  years  at  more  length  bears  Wliicli  {larticular  fynds 
being  either  established  as  furnishing  for  tiie  superstition  of  the  Popish  tymes  and 
services  or  in  such  rates  as  are  now  inconsiderable  by  the  Act  of  Parliament  King 
Janies  tlie  Sixth  Parliament :  Eleventh  cap.  :  are  extended  ilk  pound  or  penny  of 
old  unlaw  to  be  now  Ten  and  proportionally  Likeas  the  said  Archbisliop  his  Grace 
being  every  Avay  most  competent  both  as  superior  and  patron  of  the  said  Burgh 
And  as  Arclibishop  of  the  see  and  province  to  make  a  conversion  innovation  and 
destination  of  the  particular  fynes  of  old  superstitiously  bestowed  upon  their  blind 
devotions  now  to  be  applied  to  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  said  Craft  as  his  Grace 
should  think  fit  As  also  that  necessary  it  is  tliat  his  Graces  autliority  be  obtained 
for  punishing  of  persons  living  without  the  bounds  of  the  Towns  jurisdiction  and 
authoritie  and  within  the  bounds  of  his  Graces  Regalitie  conform  to  the  Petitioners 
former  Rights  granted  and  confirmed  to  them  Therefore  the  Petitioners  humbly  craved 
that  the  said  Archbishop  his  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  signe  a  Charter  and  Grant 
continuing  his  confirmation  of  their  former  Rights  with  the  conversion  and  destinatione 
to  pious  uses  as  is  therein  at  more  length  exprest  and  in  special  whereas  incomers 
Weavers  taking  out  the  stuff  of  the  Towne  to  work  or  otherways  encroaching  within 
the  Burgh  upon  their  liberties  and  privileges  when  apprehended  were  of  old  to  be 
fyned  in  ane  pound  of  wax  and  a  dinner  to  the  Maisters  of  the  craft  whicli  was 
occasion  of  needles  expences  without  good  to  tlie  poor  His  Grace  would  appoint 
Twentie  punds  Scots  for  the  jioor  of  the  trade  in  place  of  wax  and  dinner  And 
whereas  by  the  old  gifts  ilk  prentice  was  to  pay  five  shilling  scots  His  Grace  would 
allow  conform  to  the  said  Act  of  Parliament  fyftie  shilling  scots  And  that  ilk 
upsetter  pay  conform  to  their  old  rights  Item  who  takes  work  and  does  not  completlie 
doe  the  same  were  formerlie  to  pay  ane  pund  of  wax  and  wha  did  take  another 
mans  work  over  his  head  to  pay  ane  pund  of  wax  Item  disobeyer  of  the  Deacone 
to  be  fyned  in  ane  pund  of  wax  and  als  much  to  the  Magistrates  which  are  but 
mean  fynes  and  inconsiderable  Therefore  the  Petitioners  also  humbly  craved  That  the 
said  Archbishop  his  Grace  would  allow  for  ilk  pund  of  wax  as  aforesaid  the  soume 
of  four  punds  scots  and  accordinglie  to  authorize  the  said  Trade  to  exact  the  sanien 
Having  his  Graces  authority  interponed  thereto  as  the  said  supplication  in  itself  bears 
Which  supplicatione  being  taken  to  the  said  Archbishop  his  Graces  consideration  and 
fynding  the  desyre  thereof  most  reasonable  He  has  not  only  ratified  allowed  and 
approven  by  the  said  Charter  The  foirsaids  old  Gifts  and  priviledges  granted  formerly 
to  the  said  Weaver  calling  In  the  haill  heads  clauses  privileges  and  immunities 
therein  contained  In  favours  of  the  said  Trade  But  also  conform  to  the  desyre  of 
the  said  Petition  allowed  them  to  exact  the  fynes  in  manner  and  conforme  as  is 


B 


10 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


thereby  required  of  the  said  Archbishop  his  Grace  whereuto  he  has  interponed  his 
authority  by  tlie  aforesaid  Charter  The  saids  fynes  being  always  applyed  for  the  use 
of  the  poor  of  the  said  Trade  and  lies  by  the  said  Charter  converted  destin’^t  and 
appointed  the  aforesaids  small  fynes  thereby  augmented  as  said  is  conforme  to  the 
said  Act  of  Parliament  and  formerly  payable  to  the  Altars  To  tlie  use  of  the  poor 
of  the  said  calling  in  all  tyme  coming  As  the  said  Charter  of  confirmation  of  the 
dait  foresaid  Having  the  Bishops  seal  appended  thereto  at  more  lengtli  proports,  In 
all  and  sundrie  the  heads  articles  clauses  provisions  alterations  and  conversions  above 
mentioned  therein  contained  and  after  the  forme  and  tenor  of  the  samen  in  all 
poynts  And  His  Majestie  with  consent  foresaid  of  the  said  Estates  of  Parliament  by 
these  presents  alters  changes  and  converts  the  old  penalties  and  unlaws  above 
specified  contained  in  the  said  first  Gift  and  Seale  of  Cause  In  and  to  the  particular 
soums  of  money  and  penalties  above  mentioned  contained  in  the  said  last  confirmation 
granted  by  the  said  Arthur  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  ordaining  the  samen  to  be  exacted 
uplifted  and  applyed  for  the  use  and  in  manner  therein  specified  And  that  this 

present  Ratification  thereof  shall  be  als  valid  effectual  and  sufficient  to  all  intents 
and  purposes  as  if  the  said  respective  Gifts  and  Seales  of  Cause  were  herein  particularly 
exprest  AVhereanent  and  with  all  defects  and  imperfections  that  may  be  moved  or 
objected  thereagainst  or  against  this  present  Ratification  of  the  samen  His  Majestie 
with  consent  foirsaid  has  dispensed  and  by  tlier  presents  dispenses  for  ever  Extracted 
furth  of  the  Records  of  Parliament  by  me  Sir  Thomas  Murray  of  Glendook  Knight 
and  Baronet  Clerk  to  his  Majesty’s  Councill  Register  and  Rolls. 

(Signed)  THO  :  MURRAY,  Clk.  Reg. 

Eating  and  drinking  had  long  been  a  weakness  of  the  “Maisteris 
of  the  Craft,”  as  we  find  that  a  condition  which  does  not  appear  in 
tlie  document  of  1605  has  been  imposed,  and  they  are  now  to  save 

the  needless  expense  “  for  the  good  of  the  Poor  of  the  Trade.”  There 
is  in  the  1681  deed  a  stronger  note  of  exclusiveness  than  in  the 

earlier  time,  when  the  anxiety  seems  to  have  been  rather  to  secure 
good  workmanship  by  having  only  well-trained  apprentices  and  careful 
journeymen. 

The  minute  of  1st  October,  1681,  shows  that  the  Incorporation 
was  then  in  funds  to  meet  the  outlay  in  procuring  the  Archbishop’s 
Charter  and  the  Parliament’s  ratification : — 

1  of  October  1681. 

The  whilk  day,  the  deacone,  maisteris,  and  remanent  bretherin  of  the  calling 
being  convenit  in  the  craftes  hospitall  all  in  ane  voyce  bothe  now  and  of  befor, 

allowes  and  approves  what  the  tred  hes  deburst  and  barrowit  for  the  new  chartour 


ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY. 


11 


grantit  be  tlie  archbisliop,  and  the  parliamentis  ratificatioune  theirof,  and  of  the  old 
gift  in  the  callingis  favouris ;  all  put  in  the  box. 

R.  FYNNISONE. 

The  records  of  the  years  following  are  lost,  but  in  the  concluding 
chapter  the  history  of  the  last  hundred  years  or  so  is  briefly  dealt 
with. 


11. 


CONSTITUTION. 

From  the  earliest  records  the  head  of  the  Incorporation  has  always 
been  known  as  the  Deacon,  and  there  have  been  associated  with  him 
a  varying  number  of  Masters  whose  mode  of  election  or  selection  has 
varied  from  time  to  time.  There  has  been  a  clerk  from  very  early 
times — though  not  from  the  origin— as  there  occur  intermittently  casual 
references  to  the  necessity  for  a  clerk.  Clearly  the  office  of  collector 
was  not  created  until  many  years  from  the  foundation  of  the 
Incorporation,  and  the  records  as  regards  this  office  read  as  if  the 
appointment  also  had  been  intermittent.  Below  is  given  the  earliest 
minute  and  roll  of  members  which  has  been  preserved.  The  outside 
of  this  book  is  marked  as  follows : — 

JOHNE  ESTERLING 
No.  1. 


Then  the  first  page  bears  this  entiy : — 


The  names  of  the  brethcr  of  the  craft. 


Quinto  Maij  1593. 


Johnne  Glen,  dekin 
Williaine  Clerk 
Johnne  Young 
Archibald  Patersone 
Patrik  Walker 
Matthow  Blak 
Finlaye  Schankschawe 
Williame  Kirkland 
Richard  Kirkland 
Johnne  Porter 
Robert  Dobhie 
Allane  Winzett 
James  Blair 
Robert  Aikein 


■  Maisteris  of  the  craft 


CONSTITUTION. 


1o 

O 


Archibald  Thonisone 
Andro  Wetherspune 
Henrie  Relstoun 
James  Scott 
Johnne  Patersone 
Andro  Gemmill 
Andro  Kilpatrik 
Cliarles  Snyip 
Johnne  Wilsoiin 
Nichell  Cudhert 
Bartie  Mure 
Alexander  Gemmill 
Robert  Andersone 


Upone  the  xxj  daye  of  September  the  yeir  of  God  j'" 
four  scoir  allevin  yeiris. 

The  quhilk  daye,  he  voittis  ]irevaleand  of  the  hiethrene,  Johnne  Glen  is  electit 
dekin  of  the  wobsteris  for  the  yeir  nixttocum. 

Electit  maisters  of  the  craft. 

Williame  Clerk,— Johnne  Young, — Fynlaye  Schankschawe, — Matthow  Blak, — 
Patrik  Walker, — Archibald  Patersone. 

Charles  Snyip, — Officiar 

Vigesimo  secundo  Septeinbris  1592. 

The  quliilk  daye,  be  voittis  prevaileand  Johnne  Glen  is  electit  dekin  of  the 

wobsteris  for  ane  yeir  nixttocum. 

The  dekin  with  consent  of  the  craft  lies  continewit  maisteris  of  the  craft  as  of 
before. 

And  electit  Johnne  Wilsoun  officiar 

The  above  show  that  Deacon  Glen  occupied  his  position  for  at 
least  two  years,  and  the  following  minute  shows  that  thus  early  we 
find  record  of  the  present  custom  that  each  deacon  should  bear 
office  only  for  one  year.  There  is  also  reference  to  the  services  of 

a  clerk  at  the  annual  election  meeting,  as  also  to  the  service  as 

officer  of  the  craft. 

Apparently  the  position  of  officer  was  not  considered  a  desirable 


14 


CONSTITUTION. 


one,  and  this  feeling  was  utilised  to  obtain  funds  for  the  benefit  of 
the  poor  of  the  craft: — 

Decimo  tertio  Maij  1598. 

Quhilk  daye,  Barbie  Muir,  Robert  Steuart,  Finlay  Allansone,  Thomas  Bryce, 
Thomas  Gemmill,  George  Herbertsone,  and  George  Clidisdale  wnderstanding  that  gif 
thai  salbe  alyve  successive  eftir  wtheris  tliai  ar  bund  to  serve  yeirlie  ilk  ane  of 
thanie  to  be  officiar  to  the  craft  for  the  space  of  ane  yeir,  and  quhilkis  wilbe  ane 
burdein  upone  bhame ;  and  thai  all  desyrit  earnestlie  to  be  fred  of  the  service,  and 
submitted  thame  in  the  will  of  the  maisteris  of  craft  quhat  the  said  maisteris  wold 
ordour  thame  and  ilk  ane  of  thame  to  pay  for  tliair  fredome  of  the  officiar  servitor. 
The  said  maisteris  remoivit,  and  advysit  maturelie  upone  the  said  sevin  bretheris 
submissioun  in  maner  as  said  is,  frethis  the  said  sevin  brether  of  craft  of  thair 

serving  in  the  officiarschip,  and  for  that  cause  decernis  ilk  ane  of  the  said  brether 
of  craft  to  paye  to  the  dekin  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  betuix  and  the  sevint  daye  of  July 

nixtocum.  And  ferder  statutis  gif  ony  brother  of  craft  sail  desyre  fredome  of  the 
serving  in  the  officiarschip  of  thair  craft,  the  saining  brother,  and  everie  brother  of 
craft  desyring  fredome  as  said  is,  sail  paye  for  his  fredome  as  said  is,  xx  s., 
unforgeven. 

The  dire  penalties  of  canvassing  for  support  of  a  candidature  for 
the  deaconship  are  thus  set  forth ;  the  phraseology  is  particularly 
quaint : — 

(13-2-1595) 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordaiiit  for  avoiding  of  all  superioritie  and  tyrannie  in 
thair  craft  in  all  tymes  to  cum  that  he  that  sail  happin  to  be  dekin  in  thair  craft 

be  na  langer  continewit  dekin  in  the  said  craft  bob  onlie  for  ane  yeir,  bob  that  he 

be  chaugit,  and  sum  wther  brother  of  thair  craft  be  electit  and  chosen  to  beir  office 
as  dekin  in  thair  said  craft. 

Item  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of  the  craft  lies  statut  and  ordanit,  as  be  thir 
presen  tis  statutis  and  ordains,  that  in  all  tymes  comming  the  electioun  of  the  dekin 
pas  be  woittis  of  the  brethrene,  burgessis,  and  fremen  in  thair  craft,  and  that  the 

electioun  of  thair  dekin  in  tymes  comming  na  woittis  of  wther  dekinis  in  the  said 

citie  be  requirit,  bob  the  woittis  of  all  wther  dekinis  in  chesing  dekin  in  the  said 

craft  be  simpliciters  dischargit ;  and  in  the  chesing  of  the  dekin  at  the  Michalmes, 

yeirlie,  thair  be  ane  clerk  present  to  tak  up  the  woittis  of  the  brethrene  for  election 
of  the  said  dekin ;  and  quhasoevir  of  the  brethrene  sail  labour  to  contravein  this 
ordinance,  salbe  deput  mainsworne  to  the  craft,  and  pay  to  the  box  of  the  craft 
foure  lib.  and  xvj  s.  to  the  baillies,  unforgevin. 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  na  burges  nor  freinan  sone  in  the  said  craft 
serve  officiar  in  the  said  craft  sa  lang  as  thair  salbe  ane  outtintownisman  quha  hes 
cntcrib  burges  and  freman  in  tlie  said  craft  have  first  servit  as  officiar  in  the  said 
craft. 


CONSTITUTION. 


15 


Duodecimo  die  mensis  Februarij  1603. 

Quhilk  daye,  the  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  convenit  in  thair  quarter 
court,  hes  statut  and  ordenit,  as  be  tliir  presentis  statutis  and  ordeins,  for  quietnes 
of  thair  craft  in  all  tymes  to  com,  that  (luhatsuniever  brother  of  craft  sail  solist  be 
himself  or  ony  wtheris  in  his  name,  ony  of  the  brethrene  of  thair  craft  for  thair 
woittis  to  mak  him  dekin  of  the  craft,  the  saming  persone  or  persones  first  nouen 
and  imediat  persone  or  brother  mowit  he  thame  to  wott  f  s  said  is  sail  never  he  ane 
of  the  maisteris  of  the  craft  thaireftir,  bot  salhe  decernit  to  paye  to  the  dekin  of 
craft  for  the  tyme  ane  new  upset  for  the  weale  of  the  craft,  and  sail  mak  his  publict 
repentatioun  on  the  pillar  in  the  kirk  as  ane  persoune  seditious  and  mowear  of  truble 
to  the  greit  hurt  and  hinder  of  the  craft. 

It  is  necessary  again,  sixteen  years  later  than  the  minute  first 
quoted,  to  enact  that  the  deacon  shall  only  stand  for  one  year: — 

Secundo  Novembris  anno  1611. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  haill  craft,  be  pluralitie  of  woitis,  hes  ordainit 
the  act  beirand  that  the  deikin  sail  onlie  stand  for  ane  yeir.  Sail  stand  inviolabill  in 
all  tyme  cuming. 

The  following  is  the  earliest  minute  bearing  on  the  method  of 
electing  maisteris,  or  “  quartermaisteris  ”  as  they  are  here  called ;  there 
is  an  indication  that  it  was  found  undesirable  to  allow  the  deacon  to 
exercise  exclusive  control  of  the  affairs  of  the  craft,  and  through 
the  later  years  there  is  a  continued  desire  to  limit  his  power : — 

Act  anent  quaktermaesteris  Tertio  Novemb.  161.3. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft,  all  in  ane  voice,  upone 
consideratioun  of  the  greit  abuis  hes  oft  fallin  out  in  electioun  of  the  maisteris, 
throw  the  deikinis  chuising  of  the  haill,  have,  thairfoir,  concludit,  statut  and  ordainit, 
for  eleiding  of  the  former  abuis,  that  thrie  of  the  four  upone  lyt  to  be  deikin,  with 
the  auld  deikin,  sail  stand  still  maisteris  for  that  yeir,  and  the  deikin  to  chois  tua, 
and  the  craft  uther  tua,  quhilk  compleitis  audit. 

The  following  gives  an  indication  that  the  funds  of  the  Incorpora¬ 
tion  have  not  always  been  used  exclusively  for  the  relief  of  the 
poorer  members  of  the  craft.  The  reference  is  a  little  mystical,  but 
no  doubt  the  “  heidwasching  ”  was  not  effected  without  considerable 
internal  washings  of  strong  waters : — 

Septimo  August  1616. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  haill  craft  present,  all  in  ane  voice  hes  statut,  concludit, 
and  ordainit,  that  in  all  tyme  cuming  the  new  deikinis  to  be  chosin,  that  hes  nevir 


16 


CONSTITUTION. 


borne  that  office,  sail  pay  furt  of  his  awin  purs  for  his  heiihvasching,  and  the  cornnioun 
guidis  to  be  disburdeinit  thairof. 

Apparently  there  had  been  frequent  re-election  of  same  deacon 
for  a  succeeding  year,  and  then  the  Incoi’poration  repents  its  action 
and  re-enacts  as  follows : — 

xxii  Septembris  1618. 

The  same  [day],  it  is  statut  and  ordainit  that  nain  be  deikin  hot  for  ane  yeir, 
and  qnhaevir  contraveinis,  sail  pay  fourtie  pundis  to  the  deiken  conveiner. 

There  are  continual  indications  of  difficulty  in  getting  a  craftsman 
to  discharge  the  duties  of  officer.  Evidently  these  were  unpaid  labours, 
and  the  burden  fell  on  the  latest  comer : — 


Decimo  tertio  Novembris  1624. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordainit  be  the  deikin,  maisteris,  and  haill 
craft  present,  that  all  friemen  that  enteris  frie  with  the  craft  heireftir,  sail  ather 
serve  as  officer  to  the  craft,  or  ellis  sail  furneis  ane  officer  to  serve  for  thaine,  and 
sail  nowayis  be  redeiniit  thairfra  for  money,  with  this  conditioun,  that  friemenis  sones 
enterand  frie,  sail  nawayes  serve  sua  lang  as  thair  is  anie  stranger  to  serve  befoir 
thame,  and  quhen  thair  is  na  stranger  frieman  to  serve,  then  sail  frienians  sones 
serve  as  officer,  or  ellis  furneis  ane  officer,  ilk  mann  his  awin  plaice  as  he  enteris, 
utherwayes  sail  nevir  have  the  benefeit  of  ane  frieman  that  servis  not  ains  as  officer. 

The  3  day  of  November  1627. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacoune  and  haill  craft,  lies  statut  and  ordainit  in  all 
tymes  cumming,  that  the  last  incomer  of  the  craft  .sal  be  officer,  and  na  wtheris  sail 
serve  for  thame  hot  thamesellves,  freemen  sounes  being  excepit. 

Mr  G.  STIRLING. 

The  following  is  the  earliest  reference  to  the  office  of  collector : — 

The  6.  day  of  August  1628. 

The  [quhilk]  day,  the  haill  craft  being  convenit  for  taking  ordour  with  the 
commoune  guidis.  It  is  statut  and  ordanit,  be  pluralitie  of  votis,  that  in  all  tjune 
cuming,  thair  sail  be  ane  of  the  craft  chosing,  be  the  vot.  of  craft,  for  keeping  of 
thair  commun  guidis  fra  yeir  to  yeir,  <piha  sail  deburs  at  the  deaconis  command, 
quha  sail  gif  compt  of  his  intromission  yeir  be  yeir. 

Mr  G.  STIRLING. 

The  two  following  minutes  aptly  illustrate  the  alternating  tide 
in  the  affairs  of  an  Incorporation  as  in  those  of  an  individual;  1640 


Plate  VI. 


Coi.lkctok’s  IMallet. 


Collector’s  Box. 


Collector’s  Snuff-horn. 


(See  Page  121). 


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CONSTITUTION. 


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minute  indicates  an  excess  of  interest  and  stir  at  the  election  time, 

1642  the  reverse: — 

Sexto  Novembris  1640. 

The  quliilk  day,  the  deacon  and  inaisteris  of  eroft,  heinq  conveiiit  with  the  haill 
bretlirein,  at  tlie  lei«t,  the  niaist  pairt  thairof,  understanding  tlie  great  abuse,  contest 
and  stryfe  tliat  lies  bein  in  thair  calling  at  the  eleetioun  of  the  deacon  and  utheris 
courtis ;  thairfoir,  that  the  sainen  may  be  aniendit,  and  peace  intertanet,  it  is  aggried 
and  concludit  amangst  them,  in  all  in  ane  voice,  that  na  persoune,  not  payit  of  thair 
qwarter  comptis,  nor  keipeis  thairof,  sail  have  ony  voitt  or  voce  the  day  of  the 

eleetioun  ;  and  that  na  unfriemen  sail  compeir  in  court  that  day,  nather  servantis 
nor  prenteissis,  and  that  all  the  croft  be  silent,  and  evrie  ane  byde  thir  presents, 
and  voitt  as  they  ar  callit. 

21  September  1642. 

The  whilk  day,  the  haill  bodie  of  the  craft  being  all  present,  some  few  exceptit, 

Avho  war  absent  for  certane  guid  caussis  moving  them,  and  speciallie  becaus  it  is 

knawin  to  them  that  siindrie  of  the  bretherine  absentis  themselfs  the  day  of  the 
eleetioun  of  the  dekine,  having  lytle  or  na  regaird  of  the  guid  of  the  calling ;  and 

thairfoir  it  is  concludit,  statut  and  ordanit,  that  if  any  of  the  bretherine  of  the 

calling,  heireftir,  beis  absent  the  day  of  the  eleetioun  of  the  dekine,  the  yeirs 
heireftir,  sail  pay  in  to  the  box  sextein  schillingis,  wnforgevin,  to  be  gevin  to  the 
use  of  the  poore  ;  and  they  to  be  presentlie  poyndit  thairfoir  if  it  be  fund  that  they 
be  in  the  toune  and  in  healthe  of  bodie. 

Here  we  have  the  first  record  of  a  collector  actually  being 
appointed  : — 

7  November  1645. 

The  said  day,  be  pluralitie  of  voitis,  Patrik  Bryce  is  electit  collectour  to  the 

craft,  and  he  is  to  intromet  and  debars  all  concerns  the  craft  ;  and  the  dekin  is  to 

intromet  with  nothing ;  and  the  collectour  is  to  be  comptable  to  the  craft. 

Apparently  the  finst  collector  had  proved  Itimself  acceptable  to 
the  craft,  for  he  is  in  1650  appointed  as  a  great  exception  to  a  second 
term  of  service  as  deacon  : — 

20  September,  1650. 

The  said  day,  the  haill  inaisteris  of  craft  and  bretherine  of  the  calling  quhairof 
the  most  pairt  war  present  all  in  ane  voyce  continwit  Patrik  Bryce  dekine  for  the 
yeir  to  cum,  quha  being  present,  did  (altho  agans  his  will)  acce|)t  the  said  office  in 
and  wpon  him  and  gave  his  aithe ;  and  becaus  of  the  trubles  of  the  tyme,  and 
maney  wther  guid  and  weghtie  caussis  knowin  to  the  craft,  they  have  continwit  the 
said  dekine  in  his  charge  all  in  ane  voyce  without  lytting  of  him  conforme  to  the 
commoun  ordour  of  the  craft.  It  is  thairfoir  statut  and  ordanit  be  the  haill  calling, 
that  this  forme  sail  mak  no  pratique,  and  that  non  sail  be  permitit  to  beir  office  as 


C 


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CONSTITUTION. 


dekine  lieireftir  Lot  suclie  as  sail  be  lyttit,  confornie  to  the  ordour  of  the  calling,  and 

that  non  heir  office  as  dekine  hot  for  the  space  of  ane  yeir  allanerlie,  and  no  langir 

lieireftir,  conforme  to  the  former  aetis  sett  doun  thairanent. 

The  officer  does  not  appear  to  have  had  any  remuneration  in  cash, 
but  the  tear  and  wear  of  his  duties  was  provided  for  as  follows: — 

21  August  1654. 

The  same  day,  it  is  inactit  and  ordinat  that  the  officer  sail  have  ane  pair  of 
schoone  only  the  yeir  which  he  serves,  or  then  fourtie  schilling  thairfoir. 

Apparently  line  upon  line  and  precept  upon  precept  were  necessary 
to  keep  the  power  of  the  deacon  within  reasonable  bounds,  as  repeated 
entries,  such  as  the  two  following,  indicate  a  constant  seeking  for 
continuance  of  power  on  his  part  :• — 

The  third  day  of  November  1662  yeris. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  said  deacone,  and  the  maist  pairt  of  the  craft  being 

conveinet,  finding  and  tacking  to  consideratioune  some  prejudice  susteinet  he  thame 
throw  suffering  of  deacones  formerlie  to  remayne  and  continwing  in  office  moir  then 
one  j'eir  togither,  and  that  the  same  be  no  preparative  in  tyme  cuming  eftir  this 
yeir,  they  all  in  ane  voice  inact,  statute,  and  ordaine,  that  none  of  the  said  craft 
sail  remayne  and  coutinew  deacone  in  all  tyme  heirefter  more  then  one  yeir  together, 
and  that  wnder  the  paine  of  thrie  scoir  pundis  Scottis  money,  to  he  payit  be  the 
persoune  quho  sail  happin  to  he  continwit  or  chosin  one  yeir  after  another  deacone 
as  said  is,  to  the  box  for  the  us  of  thair  poore,  by  and  attour  that  he  sail  be 

turnit  out  of  his  office  for  that  yeir  quhairin  he  sail  happin  to  be  continwit  and 
fund  incapable  thairof ;  and  this  act  to  remayne  and  continow  unalterable  in  all 
tyme  cuming  as  aforesaid. 

M.  ROWAND,  Clerk. 

At  the  craftis  hospitall,  the  aught  of  February,  1667. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacone  and  maisters,  with  the  maist  pairt  of  the  brethren 
of  trade  being  con  veined,  having  taikin  to  consideratioune  the  great  almis  done  be 
former  deacones  in  puting  on  in  lytis  all  thes  whom  they  pleasit  to  be  ellectit  and 
chosin  deacone  out  of  the  maisters  without  consent  of  the  rest  of  the  calling,  being 
contrair  to  the  laudable  actis  and  statutis  sett  doune  thairagainst.  Thairfoir,  to 

prevent  the  lyk  in  tyme  cuming,  the  said  deacone  and  remanent  brethrin  of  craft 
all  in  ane  voice  inact,  statute  and  ordaine  that  all  deacones,  in  tyme  cuming,  sail 
onlie  have  power  to  chois  out  tbrie  of  the  tuell  maisters  to  be  putt  on  the  lyt  to 

be  deacone,  and  the  craft  to  chois  uther  thrie  out  of  the  nyne  to  be  lykeyis  on 

the  lyt ;  and  no  mae  to  be  putt  thairon  in  all  tyme  cuming. 

M.  ROWAND,  Clerk. 


CONSTITUTION. 


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As  als  it  is  lieirby  statute  and  ordanet  that  the  deacones  sail  have  power  to 
chois  sex  maisters  for  himself  yeirlie,  and  he  to  nominat  auglitein  uther  indifferent 
persones  besyd  out  of  wliiche  the  craft  ar  to  chois  the  uther  sex  maisters  yeirlie  in 
tyme  cuming. 

M.  KOWAND. 

The  following  entries  show  an  increasing  desire  for  regularity 
both  in  the  conduct  of  the  money  and  the  business  matters  of  the 
Incorporation,  and  here  we  have  the  first  indication  of  a  permanent 
clerk  being  appointed : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall, 

Septimo  Novemheris  1670. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  inactit,  statut  .and  ordained,  that  the  haill  calling  heir 
the  collectouris  com2)t  yearlie  in  tyme  comeing  after  the  paying  of  the  quarter  comptis 
ellectioune  of  the  new  collectour  and  maisteris  of  tread. 

The  same  day,  he  pluralitie  of  votis,  it  is  concludit,  inactit,  statut  and  ordained 
that  Patrick  Clark,  ])resent  dark  to  the  saiil  tread,  continow  and  remaine  dark 
therto,  not  only  for  this  present  year,  hot  ad  vilam  aid  culpani,  quhilk  fault  being 
instructit,  he  to  he  votic ;  and  this  to  remaine  unalterable  in  tyme  comeing. 

PATRICK  CLARK,  dericus. 

Again  there  has  arisen  need  for  regulating  the  money  matters  of 
the  Incorporation,  as  the  following  minute  shows : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall  the  elevinth  day  of  October  1672, 
convined  John  Patersone,  present  deacone  with  the 
maisters  and  tread  the  deacon  conviner  for  the  tyme 
and  — 

The  same  day,  in  farder  corroboratioune  of  ane  former  act  made  anent  the 
collectouris  intromissioune  with  the  haill  treads  geir  to  witt  in  uplifting  and  receaving 
the  same  and  debursing  thairof ;  it  is  againe  statut  and  ordained  that  in  all  tyme 
comeing  the  collectour  of  the  said  tread  present  and  to  come  intromett  with  and 
receave  the  haill  comoune  guids  and  causwallities  belonging  to  the  calling  and  to 
deburs  the  samyne  accordinlie  as  he  sail  he  ordred  ;  as  also  that  the  collectour  nor 
deacone  distrihuit  to  no  poore  in  the  calling  for  supplie  above  aughtiue  shilling  Scotis 
and  that  the  samyne  sail  he  at  sight  and  he  the  consent  of  soome  of  the  maisteris; 
as  also  that  ther  he  non  of  the  treads  geir  spent  at  any  tyme  comeing  in  meiting 
hot  out  of  ther  awne  proper  money  except  at  ane  extraordinar  caice  with  certilicatioune 
the  samyne  sail  not  he  allowit  and  the  contraviner  to  he  punished  farder  at  the 
optioune  of  the  deacon  conviner. 

PATRICK  CLARK. 


■20 


CONSTITUTION. 


The  accounts  for  this  period  are  in  a  fairly  good  state  of  preserva¬ 
tion,  and,  considering  the  degree  of  education  then  attained  among 
tradesmen,  they  are  exceedingly  well  kept.  The  minute  books,  of 
course,  were  the  work  of  a  professional  man,  and  while  his  spelling 
as  reproduced  is,  to  our  ideas,  extraordinary,  his  phraseology  is  clear 
and  pointed  and  the  caligraphy  in  most  cases  very  perfect ;  otherwise 
it  would  not  have  been  possible  to  transcribe  the  records  as  has 
been  done  for  the  present  volume. 

The  following  entry  fixes  the  remuneration  of  the  clerk,  and, 
bj’  comparison  with  the  freedom  fines  and  other  money  items  quoted, 
the  sum  paid  was  not  an  extravagant  one.  The  same  minute  shows 
that  the  deacon  personally  benefitted  by  entering  of  journeymen  on 
the  roll.  Possibly  that  made  the  office  sought  after : — 


Octavo  Novembris  1672. 

The  same  day,  be  pluralitie  of  votis,  it  is  statut  and  ordained  that  tlie  dark 
of  tlie  weaveris  sail  have  twelfe  punds  Scotis  of  yearlie  hall  in  all  tyme  comeing 
beginand  at  the  dait  of  thir  presentis ;  as  also  it  [is]  heirby  statut  and  ordained  that 
all  servantis  for  farder  instructioune  or  jurnaymen  being  strangeris  sail  pay  ten 
shilling  Scotis  to  the  deacone  at  ther  booking  in  all  tyme  comeing  by  and  attour 
the  fourtie  shilling  to  the  tread  and  the  dark  and  officeris  dewis ;  and  this  to  remaine 
unalterable. 

PATRICK  CLARK. 


There  appear  to  have  been  two  sets  of  records  at  this  time,  as 
the  repetition  of  above  entry  in  other  wording  shows;— 

At  Glasgow  the  aught  day  of  November  j™  jv'^  and 
seavintie  twa  yearis. 

The  quhilk  day,  John  Patersone,  present  deacone  of  the  weaveris  of  the  said 
burgh,  his  maisteris  and  most  pairt  of  the  calling  being  convined,  it  is  statut  and 
ordained  that  the  clarkis  tiall  sail  be  twelfe  punds  Scots  in  all  tyme  comeing  yearlie, 
and  that  in  regaird  his  paines  is  muche  greater  then  formerlie. 

(Sigd.)  PATRICK  CLARK. 

Apparently  it  was  thought  desirable  that  in  a  contest  for  the 


CONSTITUTION. 


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deaconship  the  unsuccessful  rival  should  be  made  sure  of  being  one 
of  his  competitor’s  counsellors : — 

At  Glasgow  the  seavint  of  November  1673.  Convined 
the  fornamit  deacone  conviner,  Robert  Flaikfeild, 
deacone  witli  his  remanent  maisteris  and  breathrine 
of  craft  wha  for  tlie  most  pairt  war  present. 

The  same  day,  it  is  statut  and  inacted  be  cominoune  consent,  that  he  who  is 
nixt  to  the  deacone  in  the  numer  of  votts  at  tlie  deacones  ellectione  sail  be  ane  of 
the  deacones  sex  maisteris  for  the  inshewing  year  without  any  votte  of  tread. 

(Signed)  PATRICK  CLARK. 

The  following  shows  that  it  was  recognised  that  the  officer’s 

o 

post  involved  loss  to  the  holder : — 


At  Glasgow  the  first  of  Maij  1674. 

The  same  day,  .John  Flaikfeild  younger,  weaver,  is  discharged  and  fred  be  the 
deacone  and  his  maisteris  fra  serving  as  officer  to  the  calling  in  respect  of  his 
povertie  and  inabeillatie  to  serve  in  the  said  office. 


III. 


APPKENTICESHIP  AND  EKEEMANSHIP. 

Five  years  seems  generally  to  have  been  recognised  as  the  period 
necessary  to  tit  an  apprentice  for  the  position  of  journeyman,  but 
frequently  two  years  were  added,  during  which  he  was  paid  in  “  meat 
and  fee.”  There  are  several  indentures  preserved,  but  one  will  serve 
to  indicate  the  obligations  undertaken.  This  is  drawn  by  the  then 
Town  Clerk  of  Glasgow,  who  at  the  same  time  was  clerk  to  the 

Incorporation  of  Weavers : — 

Indenture  of  Johne  Bryssoune  as  prenteis  to  David 
Arnot,  dated  27  July  1658. 

At  Glasgow  the  twent  seavin  day  of  Julij  j™  vi‘=  fyftie  eight  yeiris.  It  is 
apoyntit  iiideiitit  and  agried  betwixt  the  persouns  pairteis  fallowing  they  ar  to  say 
David  Arnot,  Weiver  biirges  of  the  said  burghe  on  the  ane  pairt  Johne  Bryssouue 
sone  lawfull  to  umquhill  Johne  Bryssoune,  Weiver  burges  thairof  with  expres  advyce 
and  consent  of  Hew  Cowane,  Weiver,  burges  of  the  saniyn  his  father-indaw  and 

Cristine  Wyllie  his  mother  on  the  uther  pairt  in  inaner  forme  and  effect  fallowing, 
that  is  to  say  forswameikle  as  the  .said  Johne  Bryssoune  is  heirby  became  bundin 
prenteis  with  consent  foirsaid  to  the  said  David  Arnot  in  his  said  arte  and  craft  of 
weiver  trade  and  that  dureing  all  the  dayis  space  yeiris  and  tyme  of  fyve  yeiris  as 
prenteis  and  twa  yeiris  thairefter  for  meit  and  fie  as  they  cane  best  agrie  furth 

and  fra  his  entrie  tliairto  qiihilk  sail  be  and  begane  at  the  dait  of  thir  presentis 

dureing  the  quhilk  space  the  said  Hew  Cowane  binds  and  obleissis  him  to  move 
and  caus  the  said  Johne  Bryssoune  prenteis  foirsaid  to  serve  his  said  maister 
faithfullie  lionestlie  leillalie  and  trewlie  and  not  to  divert  himself  out  his  said 

maisteris  service  at  na  dayis  nor  tyme  without  leicance  askit  and  given  and  for  ilk 
day  he  absentis  himself  out  of  his  said  maisteris  service  without  leive  askit  and 
given  as  said  is  (health  of  bodie  servand  as  God  grant)  the  said  Johne  Bryssoune 
bindis  and  obleisses  him  to  content  and  pay  to  the  said  David  his  said  maister 

tlirie  schillings  four  penneis  for  ilk  day  absence  and  the  saids  absent  dayis  to  be 
provin  be  the  said  David  his  aitli  of  veritie  allenerlie.  Attour  the  said  David 
Arnot  binds  and  obleisses  him  to  teach  learne  and  instruct  the  said  Johne  Bryssoune 

his  said  prenteis  in  his  said  arte  and  trade  of  weiver  craft  and  sail  not  hyd  nor 

conceall  no  poynt  nor  ingyne  thairof  fra  him  knowin  to  himself,  bot  sail  use  his 
best  and  wttermost  meins  to  mack  him  ane  perfyt  craftisniaiie  thairintill  and  sail 
furneis  him  in  meit  drink  and  bedding  in  houshold  with  himself  dureing  his  said 


APPRENTICESHIP  AND  FREEMANSHIP. 


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prentischipe  honestlie  effeirand  to  liis  rank  and  degrie  and  sail  give  him  all  sort  of 
abulyrament  iiecesser  as  becumes  dureing  the  said  tyine  of  prentiscdiipe  for  the  better 
enableing  him  to  goe  about  his  service.  For  the  quhilkis  [iremissis  the  said  David 
Arnot  grantis  him  to  have  alreddie  receavit  fra  the  bailleis  of  this  burghe  out  of 
the  fynes  they  have  exactit  fra  ofeudaris  as  justices  of  His  Heighnes  peace  within 
this  purghe  the  sounie  of  twentie  merkis  Scottis  in  name  of  prenteissie  with  his 
said  prenteis  and  discharges  them  thairof  and  the  said  Hew  Cowane  heirby  for  ever ; 
and  for  performance  of  tlje  said  David  Arnot  his  obleisinent  in  the  premissis  James 
Rodger,  weiver,  burges  of  this  burghe  is  heirhy  becum  actit  as  cautiouner  for  him 
and  he  is  obleist  to  releive  his  cautiouner,  and  for  the  niair  securitie  the  saids 
pairties  ar  content  and  consentis  thir  presentis  be  insert  and  registrat  in  the  hie 
court  bookis  of  justice  comissar  or  tonne  court  bookis  of  Glasgow  that  letteres  and 
executions  of  horning  poynding  and  wardeing  may  heirupone  pas  on  sex  day  is 

warneing  and  heirto  constitutis. 

Thar  procuratouris  writtin  be  Donald  l\I‘Gilcrist,  servitor  to  Williame  Yair, 

Notary  in  Glasgow  and  subscrivit  be  theiin  as  fallowis  att  day  yeir  and  place 

foirsaid  befoir  thir  witnessis  Robert  Allane,  servitor  to  the  said  Williame  Yair  and 
the  said  Donald  M'Gilcrist. 

I,  William  Yair,  notar  publict  subscryvring  for  the  saidis  David  Arnote,  Johne 
Rryssoune,  Hew  Cowane,  Cristine  Wyllie,  and  James  Rodger,  at  thair  command, 

becaus  they  can  not  wrytt  as  they  atlirmed. 

D.  INDGILCRIST,  Witnes. 
ROT.  ALLANE,  Witnes. 

The  earliest  entries  referring  to  apprenticeship  are  as  follows : — 

(5-5-159.3). 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  statutis  and  ordains  that  na  brother  of 

craft  tak  ane  prenteis  for  shorter  space  nor  the  space  of  fyve  yeiris,  according  to  the 
letter  of  dekinheid.  And  gif  ony  brother  of  craft  sail  put  the  said  prenteis  to  taskwork 
during  the  space  of  the  said  fyve  yeiris,  the  said  brother,  for  sa  doing,  .sail  pay  to 
the  dekin  and  brother  of  craft  foure  piindis  money  imforgivin,  and  that,  befoir  the 
imbuiking  of  the  said  prenteis  the  said  prenteis  produce  his  indenture  before  the 
dekin  and  maisteris  of  craft  gif  the  saining  he  sufficient ;  and  the  said  prenteis 
entering  in  taskwork  during  the  said  space  of  fyve  yeiris  sail  pleis  his  maister  also 
befoir  he  entir  to  the  said  taskwork. 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  statutis  and  ordains,  that  in  all  tymes 

comand  thair  be  na  les  price  tane  fra  intrentis  in  thair  craft  to  be  fremen  thairin, 

being  first  maid  burgessis  in  this  citie  and  not  burgessis  sones  fremen  of  thair  craft, 

nor  the  sowme  of  ten  pundis  money,  and  that  for  the  support  of  thair  puir  decayit 
brother  of  craft,  and  releili'  of  thair  common  charges  belonging  to  thair  craft. 


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Two  years  later,  regulation  of  incomers  is  evidently  necessary,  as 
the  following  entries  show  : — 

(13-2-1595). 

It  is  statut  and  ordanit  tliat  na  brother  of  craft  give  mair  to  ony  servand  he 
sail  tie  to  serve  him  in  his  craft  hot  onlie  x  s.  of  tie,  and  twa  part  of  proffeit  for 
the  work  the  said  servand  sail  work,  under  the  paine  of  xx  s.  for  the  first,  and 
being  convict  to  refus  to  pa3'e  the  said  xx  s. ,  to  paye  xl  s.  to  the  craft,  and  xvj  s. 
to  the  baillies. 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  thair  be  na  outtintownis  prenteis  ressavit  in 
service  in  this  toun,  because  that  mony  ignorantis  cummis  to  the  tonne  alledging 
thame  mair  experimentit  nor  thai  ar,  except  that  for  farder  learning  to  be  gevin  to 
thame  in  this  tonn,  and  tolerance  to  be  grantit  to  thame  to  work,  thay  paye  to 
the  dekin  of  the  craft  for  the  weale  of  the  said  craft  xx  s.  at  thair  admissioun  to 
be  servand  in  the  said  craft.  And  gif  that  ony  of  the  brethreine  of  the  said  craft 
sail  cloik  the  mater  and  ressave  at  thair  plesure  wnexperimentit  and  unvorthie  servandis 
to  work  to  thame  in  the  said  craft,  not  adverteisand  to  the  effect  foirsaid  the  dekin 
and  maisteris  of  the  said  craft,  thay  that  sal  happin  to  do  swa  sail  paye  for  thair 
fait  xvj  s.  to  the  baillies  and  ane  new  wpset  to  the  craft. 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  na  servand  tie  him  fra  his  maister  to  ane 
wther  brother  of  craft  without  that  be  done  in  presens  of  the  dekin  of  the  craft,  or, 
in  his  absence,  twa  or  thre  brethreine  of  the  craft.  In  case  he  sail  do  in  the 
contrair,  sail  paye  to  the  craft  vj  s.  viij  d.,  and  xx  s.  be  the  maister  that  sail  tie  him. 

Here  is  an  early  entry  as  to  the  discipline  necessary  for  idle  and 
ill-behaved  apprentices  : — 

Septimo  die  raensis  Augusti  1602. 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  convenit  at  thair  Lammase  court,  statutis 
and  ordeinis  that  quhatsiimever  servand  of  the  craft  sail  abstract  himself  fra  his  work, 
working  to  his  and  his  maisteris  weale,  and  give  himself  to  idilnes,  vaging  or  drinking, 
to  his  hurt  and  neglecting  of  his  work,  and  lose  to  him  and  his  said  maister,  in  swa 
doing  sail  paye  to  the  dekin  of  the  craft,  for  ilk  daye  the  said  servand  salbe  fund 
doing  as  .said  is,  xl  d.,  unforgevin. 

Die  xij  Maij  1604. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deakin  and  haill  brethrene  of  craft  hes  statute  and  ordanit, 
that  na  fremanis  bairne  of  thair  craft  in  tyme  cuming,  quhiddir  thai  be  prenteis  with 
thair  father,  or  with  onie  uther  man,  or  give  thair  father  be  deid,  that  they  sail 
enter  frie  but  onie  payment,  with  privilege  to  onie  freman  of  the  craft  notwithstanding 
that  he  resavis  the  fremanis  bairn  prenteis,  that  he  sal  have  licens  to  resave  ane 
uther  prenteis  quhen  occasioun  servis. 

There  is  no  earlier  entry  conferring  immunity  from  entrance  fee 
on  sons  of  members,  and  it  carries  with  it  the  right  to  the  master 


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taking  such  apprentice,  that  he  should  not  thereby  be  debarred  from 
taking  one  who  was  liable  to  pay  his  freedom  fee. 

That  the  need  for  discipline  was  not  always  on  the  side  of  the 
apprentice  the  following  entries  show : — 


Septimo  Maij  anno  domini  1608. 

The  same  [day],  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  [craft]  ordanit  Georg  .Schirilaw, 
within  XX  dayis  nixt  following  the  dait  heirof,  to  put  Johne  Walker  his  prenteis  to 
work  at  the  luinh,  uthernayes  to  denud  himself  of  his  prenteis,  and  pay  him  bak 
his  prenteissie  ressaveit  be  him  fra  the  said  John. 


Decimo  sexto  Augusti  1613. 

The  quhilk  day,  in  presens  of  John  Clark,  deikin,  and  maisteris  of  craft, 
compeirit  John  Geinrnill,  principall  and  John  Patersoun  younger,  as  cautioner  for  him, 
on  the  ane  pairt  ;  Johne  Park,  his  prenteis,  as  principall,  and  William  Clark  elder, 
as  cautioner  for  him  on  the  uther  pairt.  and  become  actit  ilk  pairtie  and  thair 
cautiouner  conjunetlie  and  severally  buntl  and  obleist  in  this  maner,  that  is,  that  the 
said  John  Gemmill  in  na  tyme  heireftir  sould  bluid  his  said  prenteis,  nor  yit  stryk 
him  unmercifully,  undir  the  pain  of  fyve  pundis,  and  freithing  of  the  said  John 
Park  of  his  prenteischip ;  and  that  the  said  John  Park  sould  in  na  tyme  cuming, 
during  his  prenteischip,  commit  onie  heiche  offence  agains  his  said  maister,  ather  in 
going  fra  his  service,  or  in  dissobedience  to  him,  under  the  pain  of  fyve  pundis 
{toties  quoties) ;  quhilkis  offences  salbe  tryit  be  the  deikin  and  maisteris  for  liaytli  the 
pairties  wranges  and  offences;  and  ar  become  actit,  ilk  pairtie  and  cautiouner,  to 
pay  xvj  schillinges  to  the  baillies  for  ilk  tryit  offence ;  and  ilk  [mincipall  obleissis 
thame  to  releif  thair  awin  cautiouner  of  the  premissis. 


Octavo  Augusti,  1621. 

The  quhilk  day,  Johne  Allansoune,  weifer  is  actit,  bund,  and  obleist,  of  his 
awin  consent,  to  teache,  lerne,  and  instruct  James  Calder  in  thir  four  poyntis  of  his 
weifer  craft,  viz. — the  wound  loome,  sea  bombacie  loome,  the  playd  loome,  and  playding, 
as  also  he  bindis  bimselfe  to  remaine  with  the  said  Johne  during  the  spaice  conteinit 
in  the  former  act ;  lykas  ArchiV)ald  Patersoune  becomes  cautioner  of  his  awin  consent 
for  the  said  James  Calder  for  implement  of  his  pairt,  conforme  to  the  act  above 
rehersit.  And  for  implement  of  the  said  Johne  Allansoune,  his  pairt,  William 
Kirkland  is  bund  and  obleist  as  cautiouner  for  him  ;  and  ilk  ane  of  the  principellis 
pairties  bindis  and  obleissis  them  to  warrand  thair  cautiouneris  of  the  haill  premissis. 

The  following  entry,  for  the  earliest  time  in  the  records,  lays 
down  smaller  fees  for  sons  and  sons-in-law  than  for  outsiders,  and 


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this  entry  is  also  interesting  in  its  effort  to  prevent  wasteful  expenditure 
at  the  entry  to  the  Incorporation : — 

Quarto  Martij  1612. 

The  quliilk  day,  the  deikin,  iiiaisteris  and  haill  craft  being  conveinit,  haveing 
weill  weyit  and  eonsidderil  how  thai  daylie  grow  and  incres  in  debt  but  releif 
thairof  quhilk  specially  proceidis  of  thair  cairlesnes  quha  ressaifes  frienien,  servandis, 
and  prenteissis  without  gratitud  or  payment  to  the  box  for  supplie  of  thair  coniinoun 
chairges.  Thairfoir  thai  all  in  ane  voice,  aggrieand  togedder,  have  concludit,  statut, 
and  ordainit,  that  in  all  tymes  cuming  thair  banquettis  and  say  drink,  quhilk  was 
sumpteous,  sail  be  convertit  in  money  to  the  comnioune  weill  of  the  craft,  and 
augmentatioun  of  thair  commoun  guidis,  sua  that  everie  frieman  prenteis  and  frieman 
sail  pay  as  followis : — That  is  to  say,  all  barges  wobsteris  sones  quhen  thai  ar 
prenteis,  xiij  s.  iiij  d.,  and  all  utlieris  prenteissis,  xl  s.  and  all  burges  wobsteris  sones 
that  becumis  freiman  sail  pay  four  pundis  of  upset,  and  thrie  pundis  for  his  banquet 
and  say  drinck,  and  siclyk  wobsteris  that  maryis  ane  frieman  wobsteris  dochter  sail 
pay  alyk,  and  utlier  burges  sones  and  uther  prenteissis  within  this  burghe  sail  pay 
tuentie  merkis  of  upset,  and  four  jrundis  for  thair  banquet  and  say  drink,  and  all 
utlieris  strangeris  that  becumis  Me  sail  pay  tuentie  pundis  of  upset,  and  sax  pundis 
for  the  banquet  and  say  drink.  To  the  quhilk  act  the  deikin  and  maisteris  and  haill 
craft  bindis  and  obleissis  thame  to  stand  and  abyd  but  coutradictioune  or  reclaniatioun. 

The  entry  of  8th  August,  1621  (on  previous  page),  and  the  following 
give  an  idea  of  the  fabrics  then  made — playd  being  something  much 
like  a  present  day  shepherd  tartan  homespun.  In  these  days  linen 
weaving  had  hardly  begun  in  Scotland,  and  was  a  distinct  craft ;  cotton, 
of  course,  was  wholly  unknown,  and  the  spinning  of  wool  only  done  by 
hand  in  the  most  primitive  fashion ; — 

XV  February  1615. 

'I’he  quhilk  day,  in  consideratioune  of  the  complaint  maid  be  Win.  Crawfurd 
to  the  craft,  of  Archibald  Thomesoune,  his  maister,  for  conceilling  fra  him  of  diveris 
jioyntis  of  his  craft  specially  hyding  fra  him  all  playdis  he  weifes  and  sea  bumbasies. 
Tliairfoir  the  deikin  and  maisteris  all  in  ane  voice  lies  ordainit  the  said  Archibald 
for  the  said  William  his  instructioune  to  give  him  to  warp  and  weife  during  his 
prenteiship  ilk  thrill  pair  of  playdis  that  cumis  in  his  hous  to  weife  and  als  to 
acquent  him  and  instruct  him  with  sey  bumbasie  that  is  hrocht  to  him  to  work 
under  the  pain  of  four  pundis  toti&s  quoties  as  he  failzies  sua  to  do  he  being  tryit 
culpabill  thairin. 

Apparently  it  was  found  necessary  in  these  days  to  ordain  that 
masters  should  not  overpay  their  servants : — 

Decimo  octavo  Augusti  1615. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  eonsiddering  the  greit  abuis  that  is 
amangst  thair  servandis  in  prejudice  of  thair  friemen  craveing  and  exacting  of  thair 


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maisteris  greit  feyis  and  bountetliis,  thairfoir  and  for  remeid  thairof  it  is  statut  and 
ordainit  be  tlie  deikin  and  maisteris  witli  advys  of  the  haill  craft  conveinit  that  na 
frieinan  heireftir  sail  give  to  ane  servand  attonr  ten  sliillinges  in  bountethe  and  na 
ntber  fey  bot  the  tna  pairt  of  the  pryce  and  bountethe  of  the  work  that  thai  sail 
work  as  servandis  with  thair  handis  and  na  farder.  And  cpiliatevir  frieman  contraveinis 
this  act  sail  pay  fourtie  schillinges  to  the  bailzies  and  four  pundis  to  the  deikin 
and  maisteris  to  the  behuife  of  the  craft. 

Tertio  Maij  1623. 

The  same  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  hailing  considerationn  how  the  prenteissis 
within  this  burgh,  expres  agains  all  thair  commoun  weill,  tackis  up  and  injoyis  the 
thrid  pairt,  or  tua  pairt  of  the  proffeit  of  his  wark ;  for  remeid  quhairof,  it  is  actit, 
statut,  onlainit,  and  concludit  be  the  deikin,  and  haill  maisteris  present,  that  na 
prenteis  heireftir,  within  the  yeiris  of  tliair  prenteiship,  sail  inbraice  or  injoy  anie 
pairt  or  portioun,  les  or  mair,  of  tbe  work  to  be  wrocht  be  tbame  during  tliair 

prenteiship,  and  give  anie  maister  suliir  or  permit  the  samin,  the  maister  to  pay  fyve 
pundis  for  ilk  fault  toties  quoties,  and  the  prenteis  that  undirtackis  the  samin,  to  be 
denudit  of  his  priviledge  and  benefeit  of  the  craft  (friemenis  sones  being  exceptit). 

For  two-aiiJ-twenty  years  conditions  remained  unaltered  as  regards 
fees  for  entrants,  and  then  the  fine  for  strangers  was  raised  as 

follows  : — 

xxiiij  Febrnarij  1645. 

The  said  day.  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  be  the  dekine,  maisteris  of  craft  and 

haill  bretherine  thairof,  who,  for  the  most  part  war  present,  that  everie  stranger  who 

enters  frieman  heirefter  with  tJie  craft,  not  being  ane  friemans  son  and  prenteis  or 

maryand  ane  burges  docbter  sail  pay  of  upset,  or  fyne,  befoir  be  be  admitit,  threttie 

pundis  money  to  tbe  weill  of  the  craft. 

In  same  minute  there  is  an  indication  that  the  weavers  had 

kindly  and  sympathetic  feelings  to  those  in  need : — 

The  said  day  Robert  Kirlie,  sone  to  James  Kirlie,  in  Gowrok,  is  buikit  heirin 
prenteis  with  Johne  Kirlie,  and  lies  payit  for  his  buiking  xx  s.  onlie,  for  respect  of 
the  poor  boy. 

Again,  only  five  years  later  than  that  just  recorded,  there  is  a 
further  increase  in  the  entry  charge  for  strangers,  and  the  minute 
contains  the  first  reference  to  the  burden  of  the  cost  of  education. 

What  form  this  took  there  is  no  evidence  to  show : — 

XXV  Februarij  1650. 

The  said  day,  the  dekine,  maisteris  of  craft,  and  haill  bretherine  of  the  calling 
being  convenit,  who  for  the  most  pairt  war  present,  and  taking  to  thair  consideratiouns 


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the  havie  hurdin";s  layit  on  tlie  calling  for  helping  of  the  poore,  and  scool-maisteris, 
and  wther  burding  imposit  on  the  calling ;  it  [is]  inactit,  statut,  and  ordanit  be  them 
all  in  ane  voyce.  that  ev^erie  stranger  entering  ane  frieman  heireftir,  sail  pay  of 
wpsett  at  his  entrie  four  scoir  niarki.s,  by  .and  besyd  the  dewis  to  he  payit  for  the 
say  drink,  mortclothe,  and  officerschip. 

Many  entries  indicate  the  deliberateness  and  thoroughness  with 
which  the  apprentice,  or  even  in  some  respects  ah'eady  qualified 
weaver,  set  to  learn  specific  branches  of  the  trade.  Here  is  a  case 
where  a  bargain  to  be  taught  “  dowble  cuveringis  ”  was  considered 
matter  for  a  legal  deed  registered  in  tlie  County  Commissary  Clerk’s 
books  : — 

At  Glasgow  the  saxtein  day  of  Julij  j"'  fiftie  sex  3’eires ; — It  is  aggriet 

betwixt  John  Cochrane  weiver,  burges  of  Glasgow,  and  Duncane  Lome,  weiver  thair 
on  the  ane  and  uther  pairtis  in  this  tnaner :  To  witt,  the  said  Duncane  Lome,  be 
thir  presentis,  bindis  and  obleissis  him  painefnllie  and  trewlie  to  teatche  learne  and 
instruct  the  said  John  Cochrane  in  Aveiving  of  dowble  cuveringis  and  that  sufficientlie, 
and  to  make  him  ane  craftisman  thairin  als  good  as  the  s.aid  Duncane  himselff  in 
all  respectis,  and  that  from  this  furthe  to  Mertimes  nixt,  and  sail  furnische  to  him 
<ane  sufficient  loome  for  that  effect  ilk  fourtein  d.ayis  about  Avith  himselfF  the  said 
sp.ace,  and  at  Mertimes  nixt  sail  give  him  tAva  doAvble  coppies  and  thrie  single 
coppies  sufficientlie  drawin  concerning  the  Aveiving  of  the  saidis  coveringis  for  the 
said  Johnes  farthering  and  instructioune  of  the  said  Avarke  thaireftir,  and  that  under 
the  paine  of  ten  merkis  of  liquidat  penaltie  for  ilk  failzie  of  the  said  Duncane  his 
pairt  of  the  premissis,  attour  performance  thairof.  For  the  quhilkis  premissis  and 
paines  sua  to  be  takin  be  the  s.aid  Duncane  in  maner  forsaid,  the  said  John 
Cochr.ane  bindis  and  obleissis  him  to  content  .and  pay  to  the  s.aid  Duncane  Lome 
tuentie  merkis  money,  and  that  Avpon  the  said  terme  of  Mertimes  nixt,  butt  delay, 
Avith  four  piindis  of  penaltie  in  caice  of  failzie  attour  the  payment  thairof.  And 
for  tlie  m.air  securitie,  the  saidis  pairties  ar  content  thir  presentis  be  registrat  in 
the  books  of  counsell,  justice  court  bookes,  schyreffis  or  comissaris  bookes  of  Lanericke 
or  toAvne  court  bookes  of  Glasgow,  that  letteres  of  executoreallis  and  horning, 
poynding  and  Avarding  may  pas  heirupon  on  sex  dayis,  and  thairto  constutis. 

Procuratouris  &c.  Writtin  be  James  Man,  servitour  to  Mathow  Rowand,  noter 
in  Glasgow  and  subscrivit  be  them  as  followis  at  day  yeire  and  place  forsaid  befoir 
thir  witnessis  the  said  MathoAv  Rowand,  Johne  RoAvand  as  servitour,  and  the  said 
J. allies  Man,  Avryter  heirof. 

(Signed)  JOHN  COCHRAND,  DONKANE  LORNE. 

M.  Rowand  witness,  J.  RoAvand,  AAutnes,  Ja:  Man,  Avitnes. 


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Another  entry  relates  how  an  abuse  had  crept  in  by  masters  not 
supplying  prentices  with  their  food: — 

7  Maij  1658. 

The  same  day,  the  dekine  and  liis  maisteris  being  convenit,  and  con.siddering 
ane  grait  corruptioun  creipt  in  laitlie  in  tlie  calling,  to  the  grait  hurt  of  inaney  of 
the  bretherine  be  prenteissis  working  on  thair  a.win  ineit.  It  is  tbairfoir  heirby 
inactit,  statut  and  ordanit,  that  it  sail  not  be  leasome  to  ony  brother  of  tbe  calling 
to  tak  ony  prenteis  heirefter  to  work  on  his  awin  meit  during  the  first  fyve  yeiris 
of  his  prenteischip,  hot  on  the  maisteris  allanerlie,  and  tliat  wilder  the  pane  of  twentie 
pundis  of  wnlaw  to  be  exactit  af  ilk  brother  of  the  calling  who  do\s  in  the  contrarie  ; 
and  that  all  suche  prenteissis  who  dois  wtherwayis,  and  meitis  himself  the  foirsaid 
fyve  yeirs  of  his  prenteischip,  sail  have  no  beneveit  of  tbe  calling  be  right  of  his 
prenteischipe. 

Soldiers  were  in  these  days  reckoned  as  worthy  of  special  con¬ 
sideration  on  their  return  to  peaceful  pursuits : — 

Nono  Augusti  1658, 

The  same  day,  Richard  Lingwood,  sojour,  is  permitit  to  work  as  ane  frieman 
during  his  lyftyme,  and  his  wyf  also,  during  hir  widowheid,  allanerlie,  she  survivand 
him ;  for  the  (|uhilk  he  payit  in  to  the  box,  and  was  lent  out,  sen  syne,  aughtein 
pundis. 

The  three  entries  following  are  interesting  as  showing  the  questions 
arising  from  time  to  time  on  which  the  deacon  and  masters  had  to 
legislate.  From  the  last  entry  it  is  evident  that  the  tide  of  Scottismen 
flowing  southward  had  not  yet  begun,  and  the  northward  flow  did 
not  receive  any  encouragement  from  this  Incorporation 

The  tbrettein  day  of  February  1660. 

The  quhilk  day  the  deacone  and  quhell  calling,  taking  to  thair  consideratioune 
the  great  prejudice  they  sustein  throw  young  friemen  tacking  prenteissis  quha  does 
not  keip  dewtie  one  to  another  as  becomes.  Tbairfoir,  to  prevent  the  same  in  tyrne 
cuming,  it  is  concludit,  statute  and  ordainet,  that  no  frieman  of  the  said  calling  sail 
have  power  priviledge  and  libertie  to  tack  any  prenteis  for  tbe  space  of  fyve  yeiris 
eftir  thair  friedome. 

As  lykwayis  the  said  deacone  and  calling  tacking  to  thair  consideratioune  the 
greit  prejudice  and  truble  they  have  betuix  some  friemen  of  the  said  calling  and 

thair  prentei.ssis  by  tbair  not  aggrieing  mutuallie  with  uthers  ;  tbairfoir  it  is  lykwayis 

statute  and  ordanet  that  (xuhat  maister  and  prenteis  sail  not  aggrie  together  in  tyme 

cuming,  hot  desyris  to  quatt  uthers,  that  the  maister  sail  not  have  power  and  libertie 
to  tack  ane  uther  prenteis  for  sua  nieikle  of  the  fyve  yeiris  of  prenteisschipe  conteinet 
the  former  indentour  as  sail  be  than  to  run,  and  the  prenteis  quho  remo\es  and 


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quattis  his  maister  sail  have  no  benefeit  of  the  friedome  of  the  said  calling  in  all 
tyme  thaireftir.  And  als  it  is  statute  and  ordanet,  that  no  maister  sail  tacke  tuo 
prenteissis  at  once  togither  quhill  the  first  prenteis  his  fyve  yeiris  he  expyrit,  and 
that  under  the  paine  of  ane  new  upsett  to  he  payit  he  the  maister,  and  the  prenteis 
to  have  no  henefeit  thaireftir. 

The  fourt  day  of  August  1662  yeiris 

The  quhilk  day,  Johiie  Falconer,  present  deacone,  with  his  maisters  of  craft, 
and  the  maist  pairt  of  the  remanent  hrethrein  thairof  being  convenet,  tacking  to 
consideratioune  the  hurt  and  prejudice  they  have  susteinet  tlirow  tacking  of  stallangers 
strangers  in  the  north  countrey  and  Inglischmen  and  men  for  farder  instructioune  to 
work  witli  thaine  in  tyme  bygaine ;  and  to  avoyd  tlie  samyne  in  tyme  cuming,  they 

all  in  ane  voice,  inact,  statute  and  ordaine,  that  they  nor  none  of  thame  sail  have 

power  and  lihertie  to  tacke  any  stallanger  as  north  cuntrey  nor  Inglischemen  to 
work  with  thame  at  any  tyme  heirefer,  dischairgeing  thame  thairfra ;  and  quhat  uther 
Scottismen  sail  come  as  stallangers  to  work  with  the  said  trade  and  calling,  having 
ane  sufficient  testimonial!  with  thame,  and  being  fund  sufficient  craftismen,  sail  pay, 
ilk  ane  of  thame  to  the  said  tradis  box  fourtie  schillings  money  ;  and  everie  servand 
sail  come  for  farder  instructioun,  sail  he  bund  for  thrie  yeris  to  thair  maister,  and 
to  pay  in  to  the  said  tradis  box,  sex  pundis  money,  for  the  weill  of  the  poore ; 

and  ilk  maister  quha  dois  in  the  coiitrar,  sail  pay  to  the  said  craftis  box  ten  pundis 
for  ilk  failzie  toties  quoties. 

M.  ROW  AND. 

The  officership  and  the  desii’e  to  avoid  its  no  doubt  onerous 
duties  are  made  a  source  of  revenue  for  the  use  of  the  poor : — 

At  the  crafts  liospitall  the  12  of  August  1665. 

The  same  day  the  deacone  and  maisters  of  trade,  all  in  ane  voice,  inactis, 
statutis  and  ordanes  that  all  stallangers  and  prenteissis  qulio  ar  admittit  or  sail  be 
admittit  friemen  sail  pay  at  thair  admissione  (except  friemens  sones,  and  quho 
mairies  friemenes  dochters)  ten  pundis  mone5"  for  thair  officerschipe  in  caice  they 
desyre  not  to  serve  the  office ;  to  be  applyit  for  the  us  of  the  poore  of  the  said 
trade  ;  and  this  to  indure  unalterable  in  tyme  cuming. 

Here  follows  a  very  interesting  entry  showing  again  the  kindly 
consideration  of  the  needy,  and  not  less  so  because  the  misfortune 
came  in  the  service  of  his  country : — ■ 

(12-8-1665). 

The  quhilk  day,  the  said  deacone  and  maisteris  tacking  [to]  thair  consideratioune 
that  umquhile  Anthonie  Tode,  liemmerman  in  Glasgow  went  out  in  the  tounes 
service  and  was  taikin  prisoner  at  Innerketliing  feght,  convict  captive  to  Durhame 
in  Ingland,  and  diet  in  prisone  with  famein  thair;  and  Walter  Tode,  his  sone, 


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being  one  of  the  tonnes  poore,  they,  out  of  pitie  and  eonsideratioune  liave  i)uikit 
the  said  Walter  Tode  prenteis  and  servand  to  Williame  Miller,  weifer,  for  fyve 
yeiris  of  prenteisschipe  and  tua  veils  for  ineit  and  fie,  conforine  to  the  indentouris 
past  betuix  thame,  daitit  the  13  of  Marche  last  1665  yeris  instant,  for  (piliilk  they 
ordanet  the  said  William  INIiller  to  pay  four  dollouris  with  xl  s.  for  his  said  prenteis 
bulking  (pihairof  the  said  Williame  lies  instantly  givin  to  the  box  tua  dollouris  Midi 
the  bulking  silver,  and  the  uther  tua  dollouris  is  to  be  payit  at  Candilsmes  nixt ; 
and  this  bulking  and  admissione  is  declarit,  be  the  said  deacone  and  maisteris,  not 
to  be  ane  preparative  to  utheris  in  tyiiie  cuming. 

M.  ROW  AND.  Clerk. 

Witli  more  formality  than  in  earlier  cases,  and  apparently  for 
the  first  time  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  deacon-convener  and 
his  house,  there  are  new  acts  passed,  both  as  to  apprentices  and 
freemen,  and  these  are  the  latest  records  on  such  subjects  which  precede 
the  long  blank  from  1683  till  1793: — 

At  the  crafts  hospitall  of  the  burgh  of  Glasgow  the  nynt 
day  of  February  1672. 

The  quhilk  day,  Walter  Stewart,  present  deacone  of  the  weaveris  of  the  said 
burgh  with  his  quartermaisteris  and  remanent  brethrine  of  the  said  calling  being 
conveiiied,  who  being  present  for  the  most  pairt,  and  takine  to  ther  serious  considera- 
tioune  how  that  many  of  ther  friemen  are  castiii  desolet  of  warke  by  the  great 
numberis  of  straingeris  who  dailie  resort  to  this  tonne  and  ties  themselfes  with  friemen 
for  farder  instructioune  and  as  jurnaymen  quherby  lire  haill  warke  is  inhanced  in  the 
hands  of  ane  pairt  of  the  tread,  and  utheris  sett  <pryb  iydle,  for  remeid  (piherof,  the 
aforsaid  deacone,  maisteris  and  breithrine  of  the  calling,  be  pluralitie  of  votis,  did 
inact  statut  and  ordaine,  and  heirby  inacts,  statuts,  and  ordaines,  that  noe  forrener 
or  strainger,  borne  above  aughtine  nrylnes  atf  this  burgh,  be  receavit  or  admittit  as 
ane  servant  for  farder  instructioune,  or  as  ane  jurnayman  with  any  fiieman  of  the 
calling  in  tyme  comeing  whill  first  he  produce  to  the  deacone  and  maisteris  ane  sutiicient 
testimoniall  of  the  place  of  his  nativitie  and  birth  and  guid  behaviour,  and  suchlyke 
as  also  to  pay  in  to  the  collectour  for  the  use  of  the  poore  of  the  calling  ten  punds 
Scotis  money  befoir  he  be  admittit  or  receavit  as  said  is.  And  this  to  remaine 
unalterable  but  prejudice  to  any  borne  within  aughtein  niylnes  to  this  burgh  to 
enter  as  formerlie,  declaring  heirby  this  act  sail  noewayes  militat  against  them. 

(Signed)  PATRICK  CLARK. 

The  same  day,  the  act  underwryttin  is  appoynted  and  ordained  to  be  bookit  in 
this  book  conforme  to  the  tennour  thairof  and  to  the  effect  thairin  specifeit, — quhairof 
the  tennour  fallowis  : — At  Glasgow  the  elevinth  day  of  December  j'"  vj^  thrie  .scoir 
eleivine  yearis, — The  quhilk  day  William  Wallace,  ane  of  the  baillies  of  the  said 


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burgh,  James  Fairie,  deacon  eonviner  tliairof  with  the  deacones  of  craftis  and  utlier 
hrethrine  of  connsell  for  the  most  pairt  being  convined,  and  takeing  to  thair  con- 
siderationne  ane  former  act  made  he  thair  predicessouris  qnhairof  the  tennour  fallowis  : — 
At  Glasgow  the  tweritie  day  of  October  j'"  v'j<=  threttine  yearis.  — The  quhilk  day,  the 
ileacone  eonviner  deacones  and  remanent  of  his  connsell  being  convinerl,  all  in  ane 
voyce  but  variance,  haveing  considered  qnhat  inconvencies  and  hurt  fallis  furth  throw 
not  hooking  of  t!ie  haill  prenteissis  taken  he  the  haill  craftis  and  thair  assistaris 
without  the  deacon  eonviner  his  warrand  to  the  deane  of  gild,  and  he  can  give  no 
warrand  without  they  he  hooked  as  said  is  quho  craves  his  warrand  and  serve 
conforine  to  the  letter  of  gildrie.  Thairfoir  the  said  deacon  eonviner,  deacones  and 
connsell  ahovenained  all  in  ane  voyce  and  with  ane  consent  statnt  and  ordained  that 
the  haill  prenteissis  who  sail  be  receaved  he  the  haill  craftsmen  and  thair  assistaris 
within  this  hnrgh  in  tyme  comeing  sail  he  first  hooked  in  the  deacon  convineris 
hookis  as  said  is,  and  ane  warrand  of  the  dark  thairof  to  the  deacone  of  craft  quho 
is  to  hook  the  [U’enteis  hefoir  he  he  receaved  or  hooked  in  the  deacone  of  his  callings 
hook  qnhatsoever  to  eshew  the  former  dainger,  and  in  caice  any  of  the  deacones 
([uhatsoever  and  thair  assisteris  receave  or  suffer  any  prenteis  to  he  receaved  be  the 
craftis  or  thair  assisteris  to  he  hooked  in  thair  awne  crafts  book,  hefoir  he  he  first 
hooked  in  the  deacon  convineris  hook  as  said  is,  in  that  caice,  the  deacone  of  craft, 
with  quliom  they  are  booked,  to  pay  fyve  pnnds  money  for  ilk  prenteis  they  receave 
toties  quoties  the  contravine  to  the  deacon  eonviner  to  he  takin  up  and  converted 
ad  pios  HSUS  ;  and  sicklyke  that  none  of  the  deacones  nor  visitor  nor  thair  assistaris 
receave  any  frieman  with  them  hefoir  he  he  first  booked  in  the  deacon  convineris, 
and  his  claikis  testificat  to  the  deacon  qnhatsoever  thairof  under  the  penaltie  totics 
quoties  for  ilk  personne  happens  to  he  receaved  in  all  tyme  comeing.  And  sicklyk 
the  haill  prenteissis  who  are  not  as  yet  hooked,  he  hooked  to  eshew  the  former 
dainger,  and  everie  deacone  to  mak  intimatioune  to  ther  haill  craftis  of  the  samyne, 
ntherwaj'es  the  prenteis  sail  have  no  henefeit  he  ther  prenteischipe,  conforme  to  the 
letter  of  gildrie.  and  that  article  thairof,  as  the  said  act  of  the  dait  forsaid  heiris. 
Quhilk  act  above  wryttin  the  said  William  Wallace,  baillie,  deacon  eonviner  and 
deacones  with  ther  hrethrine  of  connsell  have  ratified  and  approven,  and  he  thir 
presentis,  ratifies  and  approves  of  the  samyne,  and  ordaines  the  samyne  to  be  keiped 
and  observed  he  the  haill  respective  deacones  and  craftis  within  the  said  burgh,  in 
the  haill  heads,  clanssis,  and  articles  thairof  in  tyme  comeing,  under  the  penalties 
ahovewryttin  thairin  contained  ;  and  that  whomsoever  of  the  crafts  hes  ther  prenteissis 
unhooked,  they  cans  hook  them  under  the  said  penalties.  And  sicklyk  ordaines  that 
ilk  deacone  take  out  ane  extract  of  thir  pre.sentis,  and  cans  book  the  Scamyne  in 
ther  awne  crafts  hook  that  non  may  pretend  ignorance  heirof.  Sic  suhscrihitur 

G.  ANDERSONE. 

At  Glasgow  the  secound  of  Maij  1673. 

The  quhilk  day,  John  Patersone,  present  deacone  of  the  weaveris  of  the  said 
burgh,  his  maisteris  and  remanent  hrethrine  of  the  said  vocatioune  being  convined 


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(who  for  the  most  pairt  being  present),  and  considering  the  great  want  of  wark 
amongst  the  most  pairt  of  ther  friemen,  occasioned  by  the  miiltitud  and  number  of 

straingeris  entring  friemen  with  them,  by  reasoune  of  the  smallness  of  the  fridome 

fyne  payit  to  the  tread  at  thair  entrie,  qnhilk  is  lyk  to  put  to  ruine  many  of  ther 

friemen  and  ther  fanrUies,  and  render  them  burdinsum  to  the  calling ;  for  remeid 

quhairof,  after  serious  consideratioune  had  be  them  thairanent,  the  said  deacone, 
maisteris,  and  remanent  brethrine  of  the  said  calling  unanimuslie  in  ane  voyce  did 
inact,  statut  and  ordaine,  and  heirby  inacts,  statutis  and  ordaines,  that  all  straingeris 
entring  friemen  with  the  said  tread  in  all  tyme  heirafter  who  comes  in  at  the  far 
hand  and  bayes  ther  freidome,  sail  pay  at  tlier  entrie  the  sowme  of  fonr  seoir  punds 
Scotis  money  of  freidom  fyne,  without  any  demonitioune  or  modilicatioune  be  the 
deacone  and  maisteris  of  the  said  tread  or  tliair  successouris  in  otlice,  and  that  by 
and  attonr  the  uther  causwallities  and  service  formerly  in  use  to  be  done  and  payed 
be  them  at  thair  entrie ;  and  recomends  thir  j)resentis  to  the  deacon  conviner  and 
deacones  and  thaii’  brethrine  of  counsell  for  thair  approbatioune  and  ratilicatioune 
thairof. 

(Signed)  PATRICK  CLARK. 

At  Glasgow  the  twentie  sex  day  of  Maij  1673 

The  quhilk  day,  being  coinined  in  Ilutchisones  hosi)itall,  the  deacon  conviner 
and  deacones  of  crafts,  with  thes  who  war  deacones  the  last  year,  and  ane  great 
number  of  ther  brethrin  of  counsell,  anent  ane  sni)plicatioune  presented  to  them  be 
the  present  deacone  of  the  weaveris  within  the  said  bnrgh,  maisteris  of  craft,  and 
wholl  corporatioune  thairof,  craveand  ane  act  to  be  ratified  and  api)roven  by  them, 
quhairof  the  tennour  is  as  [the  foregoing],  t^luhilk  being  taken  to  the  said  deacon 
conviner  deacones  and  remanent  persones  forsaid  ther  consideratioune,  they  all  in  ane 
voyce  have  ratified  and  aiiproven,  and  be  thir  presentis  ratifies  and  approves  of  the 
forsaid  act  in  the  haill  poynts  and  articles  thairof,  and  ordaines  the  samyne  to  be 
observed  be  the  said  vocatioune  of  weaveris  in  all  tyme  conieing ;  and  ordaines  thir 
presentis  to  be  insert  and  registrat  in  the  deacon  C(jnvineris  book,  and  his  dark  to 
give  out  ane  extract  thairof  to  the  said  calling,  and  the  same  to  be  read  to  them 
once  everie  year  that  non  pretend  ignorance.  Sic  subscribitur 

G.  ANDERSON E. 

Decimo  sexto  Februarij  1674 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  unianiniuslie  concludit  and  inactit  be  the  said  tread  that 
no  frimane  sail  have  libertie  to  take  ane  jurnayman  or  any  for  farder  instructione 
in  tyme  comeing  quhill  first  the  servant  sudiccentlie  instruct  and  prove  that  he  lies 
served  thrie  yearis  space  com[)leit  at  the  weaver  craft  in  the  cuntrie  and  that  under 
the  paine  of  ane  new  upset. 

The  same  day,  the  said  calling  did  unanimuslie  inact,  statut,  and  ordaine  that 
no  frieman  within  the  samyne  in  tyme  comeing  take  or  fie  any  stranger  for  farder 


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instructioune  any  shortar  space  then  twa  yearis  under  the  paine  of  four  punds 
Scotis  for  ilk  contraventioune,  for  the  use  of  the  poor. 

Tenth  of  August  1683. 

The  quliilke  daj^  tlie  deacon,  niaisters  and  most  pairt  of  the  calling  being  met 
and  conveinit  in  the  craftis  hospitall  with  John  Wallace,  present  deaconveiner,  and 
haveing  tackin  to  thair  serious  consideratiounes  the  caice  and  condition  of  the  poor 
of  the  said  calling ;  they  all  in  on  voyce  with  consent  of  the  said  deacon  conveiner 
hath  statute  and  ordainit,  and  heirby  statutes  and  ordanes  that  in  all  tym  coming 
that  like  prenteis  and  jurnayman  at  his  booking  pay  in  for  the  use  of  the  poor  thrie 
pundis  Scotis  being  strangers  and  not  friemenis  sones  who  ar  to  pay  conform  to  all 
use  and  wont  attour  the  dark  and  otticers  dewes ;  and  that  each  person  intending  to 
mak  himself  friman  being  friemens  sons  and  goodsones  sail  pay  at  thair  admission 
eight  pundis  Scotis  quhairin  ther  say  drink  is  to  be  includit  and  to  be  frie  of  the 
deacons  ten  shilling  the  clerk  and  officers  dewes  being  allwayes  payit ;  and  in  caice 
the  samyn  act  sail  happin  to  be  contraveinit  be  any  succeiding  deacon  heirefter,  that 
the  deacon  for  the  present  that  sail  swa  breck  the  same  sail  be  heirby  lyable, 
immediatly  therefter  in  twentie  pundis  Scotis  for  the  use  of  the  poor  toties  quoties 
without  forgivenes  ;  and  this  act  they  ordain  to  stand  in  all  tym  heirefter. 


IV. 

TRADE  PRIVILEGES. 

The  earliest  entry  showing  co-operation  with  any  other  town  is 
the  following,  and  it  indicates  that  the  finances  were  at  a  low  ebb 
when  £24  Scots  had  to  be  borrowed : — 

The  same  daj',  the  deikin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  present  all  in  ane  voice 
have  concludit  and  ordainit  that  the  xxiiij  pundis  givin  to  the  deikin  and  wobsteris 
of  Edinburgh  for  thair  supplie  in  defens  of  the  commoun  weill  of  the  wobster  craft 
sail  be  borrowit  for  proffeit  upone  the  commoun  guidis  of  the  craft,  for  the  quhilk 
this  act  sal  be  ane  guid  warrand. 

There  is  a  very  early  indication  of  the  fears  that  such  a  new 
departure  as  a  “  manufactorie  ”  was  a  menace  to  the  individual 
worker ; — 

Apud  Glasgow  quinto  Maij  anno  domini  millesimo 
sexcentesimo  trigesimo  octavo. 

The  quhilk  day  the  provest,  bailzies  and  counsall  of  the  said  burghe  being 
convenit,  forsameikle  as  Ricbart  Allane,  deacon  conveiner  reportit  in  counsall  that 
the  wivers  friemen  within  this  burghe  feired  that  the  erecting  of  the  manufactorie 
within  the  saniein  sould  prove  hurtfull  and  prejmliciall  to  them.  Thairfor  Patrick 
Bell  ane  of  the  wndertakers  of  the  said  manufactorie,  for  himself  and  in  name  of 
his  partiners,  was  content  that  it  sould  be  inactit  and  ordanit  tliat  during  the  tyrae 
of  the  tak  sett  to  them  be  the  toun  of  that  hous  in  Drygait,  and  the  use  of  the 
buithe  wnder  the  tolbuithe  for  the  use  of  the  said  manufactorie,  that  thair  sould  be 
nae  wobis  wovin  of  touns  folkis  thairin  be  thair  .servandis  in  hurt  and  prejudice  of 
the  said  friemen,  hot  by  thais  onlie  wha  ar  frie  with  the  said  calling ;  and  swa  the 
saidis  provest,  bailzies  and  counsall  ordanit  the  samein  to  stand  in  force  during 
thair  tak  of  the  said  manufactorie.  Extractum  per  me 

W.  YAIR. 

No  record  has  survived  of  the  origin  of  the  ca.sualty  referred  to 
in  the  following,  and  it  is  evident  that,  even  in  these  early  days,  with 
the  small  population  and  limited  area  concerned,  the  collection  of  such 
tribute  was  impracticable.  There  is  no  further  reference  to  the  subject, 
so  Allan  Andersone  does  not  seem  to  have  had  any  greater  success 


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as  an  individual  than  tlie  corporate  body  had  in  collecting  the  impost. 
The  arrangements  between  the  Glasgow  weavers  and  those  of  the 
“  Gorballis  ”  are  dealt  with  in  another  chapter ; — 

xj  Maij  1646. 

Tlie  said  day,  tlie  dekine  and  rnaisteris  of  craft  taking  to  tliair  consideratioun 
tliat  the  craft  lies  ane  causualitie  helonging  tliairto  vdz.  —  twa  penneis  of  ilk  peice 
of  lyning  clothe  hroght  to  the  mercat  of  tliis  hurghe  be  ane  weifer  to  he  s  >ld  and 
als  ane  wther  eausnalitie  of  xxxiij  s.  iiij  d.  to  he  takin  of  ilk  weifer  in  the  cnntrey 
that  takis  out  wark  out  of  the  towne  to  he  wovine,  quhairof  the  craft  lies  bein  in 
use  lang  of  hefoir,  he  vertew  of  thair  right  thairof,  and  now  lies  gon  out  of  use 

throw  neglect  or  wtherwayis  (except  thes  in  Gorballis),  and  hecaus  the  saidis 

causualiteis  lies,  and  may,  prove  prolitahle  to  the  craft  for  releif  of  thair  poore 
decayit  hretherine,  the  dekine  and  rnaisteris  of  craft  lies  gevin  and  he  thir  presentis 
grantis  full  power  and  eoiiimissioun  to  Allane  Andersone,  ane  of  thair  hretherine  to 
introniet  with  and  collect  the  saidis  twa  causualites  (except  that  whilk  is  jiayit 
yeirlie  to  the  craft  he  the  weiferis  in  the  Gorballis) ;  and  that  for  the  space  of  twa 
yeiris,  viz.,  to  Witsonday  1648;  and  to  appropriat  the  same  to  himself  for  his  pains; 
to  the  ell'ect  the  same  may  he  hroght  in  use  agane  for  the  weill  of  the  craft ;  and 

then  the  craft  is  to  enter  tliairto,  and  to  mak  the  best  use  thairof  they  can. 

While  there  were  undoubted  privileges  granted  by  the  town  to 

tradesmen,  tliere  was,  on  the  other  hand,  an  onerous  obligation  under¬ 
taken  by  the  Burgesses,  as  the  following  copy  of  a  Burgess  ticket 
will  show  : — 

Buruess  ticket  in  favor  of  John  Boyd,  tailor. 
— dated  8  August  1678. 

Heir  I  protest  hefor  God  that  I  confes  and  allow  with  my  heart  the  trew 

rGigione  [iresently  protest  within  this  kingdonie  and  authorized  he  the  laus  theirof. 

I  sail  ahyd  theirat,  menteine  and  defend  the  saniyne  to  my  lyfes  end,  renuneand 

tlie  romane  religione  callit  papastrie.  I  sail  he  leill  and  trew  to  our  dread  soveragne 

the  Kings  Majestie,  and  to  the  proveist  and  haillies  of  this  burgh.  *  I  sail  obey  the 
ofliceris  theirof,  fortielic,  menteine  and  defend  them  in  the  executione  of  their  ofEce 
with  my  body  and  guids.  I  sail  not  cullor  unfriemens  guids  under  [cullor  of  my 
own].  I  sail  do  nothing  hurtfull  [to]  the  privilidges  and  comoune  weill  of  this  burgh. 
In  all  taxationes,  watchings,  and  wardings  to  he  laid  ujion  this  burgh,  I  sail 
willingly  heir  my  pairt  theirof  as  I  am  commandit  he  the  magestrates  of  the  samyne, 
and  sail  not  purcheis  nor  use  exemptiones  to  he  file  thairof,  renuneand  the  henifiet 
of  the  saniyne  for  ever.  I  sail  not  brew  nor  cause  brew  any  malt  hut  such  as  is 
grund  att  the  toune  luylnes,  and  sail  grind  noe  other  comes  except  wheat,  ry,  peis, 
and  heincs,  allenerly ;  and  so  oft  as  I  break  any  poynt  of  this  mj'  aith  I  ohleis 


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me  to  pay  to  the  comoune  affaires  of  this  hurgh  the  same  of  ane  hiindreth  punds 

Scotis  money  and  sail  remayne  in  ward  (pihill  the  samyne  to  payit,  so  healpe  me 

God.  I  sail  give  the  hest  counsell  I  can,  and  conceill  the  connsell  shawine  to  me. 

I  sail  not  consent  to  dispone  the  comoune  guidis  of  tliis  hurgh  but  for  ane  comoune 

cause  and  ane  comoune  ])rofeit.  I  sail  make  concord  (piliair  discord  is  to  the 
utermost  of  my  power.  In  all  linieationes  ami  nighbourhcids  I  sail  [give]  my  leill 

anil  trew  judgment  but  pryce,  prayer,  or  reward,  so  healp  me  God  : - Aiaid  Glasgow 

octavo  die  mensis  Augusti  millesitmr  se.xcentesimo  seiituagesimo  octavo :  -The  ipihilk 
day,  Ninian  Andersone,  jiresent  dean  of  gild  of  the  buigh  of  Glasgow,  and  brethrine 
of  his  counsell,  sittand  in  judgment,  .John  IJoyal,  tayleor,  is  made  burges  and  gild 
brother  of  the  said  burgh  as  eldest  and  laufull  sone  to  uimpihill  .John  IJoyd  younger, 
maltman,  burges  and  gild  brother  theirof,  who  lies  payit  his  fynes  and  given  his 
oath  as  use  is. — Extractum. 

(Signed)  G.  ANDEllSONE. 

That  tli8  privileges  were  recognised  and  upheld  by  the  Royal 
Authorities  the  following  Act  will  show : — 


Act  of  the  IjORUS  of  the  Exchequer  in  favor 
of  the  Trades  of  Glasgow  as  to  privileges  given 
to  the  masters  of  the  “East  Suggarie”  of 
Glasgow,  dated  5  July  1687. 

At  Glasgow  the  fyfth  day  of  July  i"'  vi'-'  and  eightie  sevin  ye.ars,— Anent  the 
supplication  given  in  be  the  proveist,  tonne  connsell,  deacon  conveener  of  the  trades 
of  Glasgow  for  themselves  and  in  name  and  behalfe  of  the  freemen  of  the  said 
burgh,  to  the  lords  commissioneris  of  his  Majesties  thesaurie  and  exchequer,  —  JJearing 
that  notwithstanding  of  the  fiindamentall  lawes  and  consiitutiones  of  the  burgh  and 
by  several  1  acts  granted  by  his  sacreed  Majesties  royal  1  predicessouris  and  seallis  of 
causes  granted  to  the  incoriiorationes  of  severall  trades  within  the  said  burgh,  and 
•pihich  are  all  ratilied  and  confirmed  Jiy  aeverall  acts  of  parliament ;  and  particularlie 
the  6th  act  of  the  19th  parliament  of  Ixing  .James  the  sexth  all  unfreemen  especiailie 
couparis,  are  expreslie  prohibited  and  discharged  to  work  or  exercise  their  trade 
within  the  priviledges  and  liJterties  of  the  said  Inirgh  ;  and  the  deacon  and  freemen 
of  the  Couparis  are  both  impoured  and  apjiointed  to  censure  and  punish  all  unfree 
persones  who  shall  be  apprehended  working  any  such  work  within  the  burgh, 
conforme  ipiliairunto  the  petitioneris  have  bein  in  possession  of  their  jiriviledges 
cont.ained  in  the  foresaids  rights  Jty  ap[»rehending  and  punishing  all  unfreeinen 
working  within  the  said  burgh  and  that  past  all  memorie ;  notwithstanding  ipiliairof 
upon  ane  petition  presented  to  the  saids  loids  by  the  maisteris  of  the  East  .Suggarie 
of  Glasgow  upon  the  first  day  of  Apryle  last,  there  is  ane  act  past  quhaiiin  among 
severall  other  priviledges  and  concessiones  granted  be  the  saids  lords  to  the  maisteris 
of  the  said  suggarie,  the  saids  lords  have  allowed  them  the  benefite  of  ane  coupar 


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for  their  work  of  their  oune  choiseing ;  and  he  vertew  of  the  saiil  act  the  maisteris 
of  the  suggarie  hav'e  accordinglie  brought  in  and  doeth  yet  keep  and  make  use  of 
ane  unfreeman  for  working  of  their  pretended  coupar  Avork  in  manifest  contempt  of 
the  magistrats  and  fundamentall  laAves  of  that  burgh  and  tlie  prejudice  of  tlie  deacon 
and  freemen  couparis  and  their  rights  and  priviledges  granted  to  them  in  maner 
foresaid  ;  and  as  tlie  said  act  was  privatlie  impetrat  without  aither  calling  or  hearing 
of  the  petitioneris,  and  that  in  caice  the  petitiouneris  had  bein  heard  at  the  passing 
thereof,  the  humblie  conceave  no  such  act  could  have  past  against  them  for  the 
reasones  following,  viz.  — Primo,  the  petitiouneris  haveing  their  rights  and  priviledges 
ahovewrittin  so  clearlie  granted  and  established  to  them  according  to  the  fundamentall 
lawes  of  this  kingdom  ;  and  the  same  being  cled  with  immemoriall  possession,  it  is 
humVjlie  conceaved  their  saids  priviledges  can  neither  be  taken  from  them  nor 
incroached  upon  except  hy  ane  legall  process  of  reduction  and  declarator  before  the 
judge  ordinal-;  and  no  man  ever  pretended  such  solemne  rights  and  constitutiones, 
cled  with  immemoriall  possession  as  said  is,  can  be  evacuat  by  ane  delyverance 
clandestinlie  impetrat  upon  ane  privat  bill.  Bot  Secundo,  as  the  act  of  parliament 
made  anent  manufactories  doeth  allow  them  no  such  priviledges  as  to  mantaine  any 
unfree  coupar  for  working  of  their  pretended  coupar  work  for  manufactories  within 
this  kingdome  did  ever  pretend  to  the  same,  bot  on  the  contrare  they  are  all 
expreslie  precluded  and  debarred  therefrom,  as  is  clear  by  the  manufactories  both  of 
the  Suggaries  and  Soaparies  at  Leith  and  other  free  hurghes  within  this  kingdom, 
wherein  none  hot  freemen  are  allowed  to  work  any  wright  work  or  coupar  work 
within  the  burgh  in  any  of  the  manufactories  that  are  set  up  within  the  same. 
Tertio,  It  is  weill  knowne  that  all  the  coupar  work  the  manufactorie  will  stand  in 
need  of  the  space  of  ane  whole  year,  could  be  wrought  by  ane  man  in  the  space 
of  two  or  three  moneths  at  furthest,  so  that  they  could  keep  no  constant  coupar  if 
it  were  not,  that,  under  cullour  of  working  to  the  manufactorie,  they  doe  privatlie 
work  to  severall  other  of  the  inhabitants  ,and  otheris  of  the  countrey,  to  the  great 
j)rejudice  of  the  deacon  and  freemen  of  that  trade.  Quai  to ; — In  caice  such  ane 
encroachment  u[)on  the  burgh  of  Glasgow  and  priviledges  thereof  should  he  allowed, 
the  maisteris  of  the  manufactories  might  likewayes  pretend  to  bring  in  and  mantaine 
ane  wright,  shoemaker,  tailzeour  &c.,  all  unfreemen,  and  thereby  mine  and  prejudge 
the  haill  tr.ades  of  the  burgh,  and  quhich  the  saids  maisteris  are  actually  threatning 
to  doe  alheit  the  same  be  humblie  conceaA'ed  to  be  ane  encroachment  altogether 
unheard  of  and  inconsistent  with  law.  Quinto,  if  such  encroachments  should  be 
allowed,  (as  in  law  they  cannot)  the  haill  trades  would  undouhtedlie  be  ruined,  the 
burgh  thereby  rendered  uncapable  to  pay  the  taxationes  and  impositiones  due  to  his 
Majestie  and  the  hurgh  should  be  ruined  and  bis  Majesties  revenew  diminished  and 
]jrejudged;  and  seing  the  petitioneris  are  willing  to  furnishe  the  manufactorie  with 
able  and  skilfull  workmen  both  at  ane  ordinary  and  cheap  rate. — Therefore  humhly 
craveing  that  the  saids  lords  in  consideration  of  the  premissis  would  he  pleased  to 
recall  the  foresaid  delyverance  and  act  extracted  thenipon  in  favoures  of  the  saids 
maisteris  of  the  Suggarie,  or  other wayes  remitt  the  same  with  their  rights  and 
priviledges  to  the  lords  of  session  to  be  determined  be  them  according  to  law ;  and 


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in  the  meantyme  allow  the  petitioneris  the  exercise  and  possession  of  their  rights 
and  priviledges  until  the  tinall  decision  thereof  and  act  extracted  therupon ;  as  the 
said  petition  in  itselfe  at  full  lenth  is  contained ;  Which  petition  being  read  and 
considered  be  the  saids  lords,  they  ordained  the  inaisteris  of  the  said  Suggarie  to 
see  and  answer  the  same,  who  gave  in  the  answeris  made  he  them  therto  in  maner 
nnderwrittin  viz. — that  the  maisteris  of  the  said  suggar  work  conceave  that  they 
have  good  and  undoubted  right  to  the  said  priviledge  by  the  acts  of  parliament  and 
acts  of  exchequer,  declaring  this  priviledge  to  them  of  haveiiig  ane  coupar  of  their 
oune  choiseing,  and  that  likewayes  for  the  reasones  then  presented,  and  quhich  were 
found  to  be  verie  relevant  and  sufficient,  hot  the  saids  maisteris  being  now  charged 
with  horning  at  the  instance  of  the  couparis  of  Glasgow,  and  there  being  ane  bill 
of  suspension  given  in  by  the  maisteris,  the  same  is  ordained  by  ane  warrand  in 
presentia  produceil  by  themselves,  to  be  discust  upon  the  bill,  and  the  saids  lords 
being  the  judges  ordinary  for  discussing  points  in  jure  such  as  this  is,  it  is  humblie 
conceaved  that  they  could  not  trouble  their  lordships  with  it,  it  being  ane  rindoubted 
principell  in  law,  that  ane  process  depending  before  ane  judicatorie  could  not  be 
transferred  to  ane  other  by  the  same  pairtie  who  intended  the  process ;  and  if  it 
were  otherwayes  the  maisteris  would  be  verie  glad  to  debate  before  their  lordships 
who  had  alreadie  decided  in  their  favoures,  hot  since  the  cou])aiis  .are  not  content 
to  submitt  to  the  saids  lords  decision,  hot  thinks  they  are  wronged  in  point  of  law, 
the  maisteris  are  verie  content  that  the  lords  of  the  session  may  hear  likewise  their 
reasones  to  the  end  they  may  second  the  saids  lords  act  and  find  that  they  have 
done  what  was  suitable  to  the  law  of  the  N.ation,  .and  the  acts  of  p,arliament  in 
favoures  of  manufactories,  and  which  they  hope  will  at  leist  put  ane  end  to  all 
proces  ;  by  which  the  maisteris  of  the  suggar  works,  manufactories  and  privat  estates 
are  ruined.  Which  petition  abovewrittin  ansueris  made  thereto,  with  the  acts  of 
parliament  and  acts  of  exchequer  founded  on  by  both  parties,  the  lords  remitted  the 
consideration  thereof  to  the  lords  president  of  the  session,  lord  Tarbat  anil  lord 
Castlehill,  three  of  their  oune  number,  to  doe  therein  as  they  hand  cause  or  to 
report.  The  lords  of  the  committee  appointed  for  considering  of  the  withinwrittin 
petition  and  answeris  made  therto,  conceaves  that  notwithstanding  of  the  act  of 
exchequer  in  favoures  of  the  maisteris  of  the  Easter  Suggar  Work  of  Glasgow  for 
allowing  them  the  freedom  of  ane  coupar  of  their  oune  choiseing  for  working  of  their 
coupar  w'ork,  yet  that  the  saids  maisteris  ought  not  to  enjoy  the  foresaid  priviledge 
unlesse  the  coupar  swa  to  be  made  use  of  be  them  be  ane  freeman  coupar,  and 
that  the  saids  maisteris  ought  not  to  make  use  of  no  other  tradesman  of  the  said 
burgh  of  Glasgow  without  being  freemen  as  aforesaid  the  petitioneris  allwayes 
furnishing  the  manufactorie  with  skilfull  workmen  at  ane  ordinarie  and  cheap  rate. 
The  lords  of  his  Majesties  exchequer  haveing  considered  the  foresaid  report,  approves 
of  the  samen.  Sic  subscribitur,  Perth,  cancell.  I.P.D.  Extractum  de  libris  scaccarij 
per  me.  Sic  subscribitur  Tarbat. 

Avoiding  needless  repetition,  the  one  record  following  is  given  as 
an  example  of  how  the  privileges  of  the  craft  were  maintained  at  law. 


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The  process  ends  abruptly,  so  presumably  an  amicable  settlement,  which 
it  was  not  thought  necessary  to  record,  was  arrived  at : — 

Unto  tlie  deacon  and  masters  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  in  Glasgow. 

Tlie  representation  and  complaint  of  Robert  Provane,  Collector  to  the  said  Incorporation. 
Sheweth 

That  by  several  acts  of  the  said  incorporation  its  statute  and  enacted  that  it 
shall  not  he  leesom  or  laufull  to  any  freeman  of  the  said  incorporation  to  employ  or 
give  work  to  unfreemen  or  countrey  weavers  not  freemen  of  the  said  trade,  and  that 
the  contraveeners  are  to  be  lyahle  to,  or  incurr  certain  fynes  to  he  payed  to  the 
Collector  for  the  use  and  behove  of  the  poor  of  the  said  trade,  and  jiarticularly  by 
act  of  the  said  incorporation  of  the  2.3d  of  May  1735  years,  it  was  agreed  by  the 
said  whole  trade,  ncinine  contradiccnte,  with  advyce  and  consent  of  the  deacon 
conveener,  that  in  all  time  thereafter  no  freeman  of  the  said  incorporation  shall 
employ  any  unfreeman  to  work  any  piece  of  thair  craft  under  the  pain  of  nine 
poundis  Scots  money  of  tine  toties  quoties  to  he  paid  by  the  contraveener  to  the 
collector  for  the  behove  of  the  poor  of  the  said  incorporation,  and  three  poundis 
Scots  to  the  informer,  and  that  the  deacon  and  masters  shall  not  have  power  to 
remitt  any  part  of  the  said  fynes.  Notwithstanding  wheirof  William  Gemmill,  late 
deacon  and  James  Sym  (blank)  both  freemen  of  the  said  incorporation  have  each  of 
them  contraveened  the  said  acts,  as  informed  by  James  Stewart,  freeman,  against  the 
said  William  Gemmill,  and  Thomas  Muir,  late  deacon  against  the  said  James  Sym 
in  so  far  as  the  said  William  Gemmill  has  employed  James  Fleming,  weaver  in 
Anderston  and  given  him  a  webb  of  doullas  one  or  more  to  work  for  the  said  William 
Gemmill  within  these  six  monethis  past,  and  the  said  James  Sym  within  the  said 
time  has  imployed  Andrew  Fyfe,  weaver  in  Westthorn  and  givin  him  a  piece  or  pieces 
of  check  linnen  to  work  for  the  said  James  Sym,  and  none  of  the  .saids  James 
Fleming  nor  Andrew  Fyfe  are  freemen  of  the  said  incorporation  ; — Wherefor  the  saids 
^Villiam  Gemmill  and  James  Sym  should  each  of  them  be  decerned,  amerciat,  and 
fyned  in  the  forsaid  sum  of  nine  })Oundis  Scolis  of  fyne  to  me  the  said  Robert 
Provan,  collector,  for  the  behove  of  the  poor  of  the  said  incorj)oration,  and  in  the 
forsaid  three  poundis  Scots  to  the  said  several  informers  viz. — the  said  William  Gemmill 
in  three  poundis  Scotis  to  tlie  said  James  Stewart,  and  the  said  James  Sym  in  three 
poundis  Scotis  to  tlie  .said  Thomas  Muir. 

(Signed)  ROBERT  PROVAN. 


Glasgow  21  January  1747,  sederunt  Patrick  Stevenson,  deacon  with  the  masters, 
William  Gemmill  and  James  Sym,  cited  by  Mungo  Muir,  oflicer,  called,  appeared, 
craved  a  copy  of  the  forsaid  lybill,  and  a  competent  tyme  to  ansuer,  which  was 
agreed  to,  and  they  received  a  cojiy  of  the  lybill,  and  are  assigned  to  ansuer  on 
Tuesday  nixt  at  .six  of  the  clock,  in  the  house  of  Andrew  Armour,  late  bailie,  to 


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which  time  and  place  tlie  court  adjourned,  and  to  whicli  the  saids  William  Gemmill 
and  James  Sym  were  warned  a'pud  acta: — 

1747 — 27th  January  between  6  and  7  i 

afternoon,  tlie  deacon  and  most  of  1  called,  compeared  not. 
the  masters  convened.  ) 

Glasgow  11th  February  1747,  INIungo  Muir,  officer,  veritied  a  warning  against  William 
Gemmill  and  James  Sym,  defenders  only  James  Sym  compeared  and  acknouledged 
that  he  had  givin  work  to  Andrew  Fyfe,  ane  unfreeman  as  lybilled.  It  was  reported 
that  William  Gemmill  was  confined  to  his  room  by  imlisposition : — 

The  deacon  and  masters  make  avisandum  of  this  process  to  the  Incorporation  of 
Weavers  in  Glasgow  at  their  nixt  meeting,  which  is  appointed  to  he  on  Friday  nixt 
at  three  afternoon  in  the  Inner  High  Church  of  Glasgow,  to  which  the  said  James 
Sym  was  warned  apml  acta,  and  the  ollicer  is  a[ipointed  to  warne  the  said  William 
Gemmill,  each  of  them  under  the  pain  of  four  pounds  Scots  of  unlaw. 

(Signed)  PATRICK  STEVENSON. 


F 


V. 


RELATION  TO  TRADES’  HOUSE  AND  CARE  OF 
THE  POOR  OF  THE  CRAFT. 

While  the  Incorporation  originated  not  later  than  1514  (as  stated 
in  Chap.  I.),  the  combination  ot‘  the  Fourteen  Trades,  now  known  as 
the  Trades’  House,  did  not  take  place  till  1605,  and  it  is  extremely 
probable  that  the  cause  of  that  combination  was  the  joint  ownership 
of  the  Almshouse  or  Hospital.  The  earliest  reference  to  this  subject 
is  the  following  minute  : — 

Die  xiiij  Decembris  1604. 

The  quhilk  day,  Richart  Kirkland,  deakin  being  eonvenit  within  the  Hie  Kirk  of 
Glasgow,  accoinpaneit  with  Ids  niaisteris  and  liaill  bretherene  of  craft,  quha  all  with 
ane  consent  aggreis  that  in  all  tym  coining  ilk  frenian  of  tliair  craft  sail  pay,  ilk 
quarter  of  the  yeir,  tua  schillingis  for  his  quarteris  wageis,  quhilk  salbe  delyverit  to 
the  deakin  for  the  tyme  to  be  bestowit  and  applyit  to  the  use  of  the  puir  decayit 
craftisnien  quhilkis  sail  happin  to  be  iniput  in  the  hospitall  in  Stabilgrene,  newlie 
erectit  be  the  craftisnien  of  this  burgh  of  Glasgow,  salang  as  puir  craftisnien  renianis 
in  the  said  hospitall,  utherwjds  the  said  quarter  wageis,  in  cais  of  the  decay  of  the 
said  hospitall,  to  returne  agane  and  apertene  to  thair  awiii  craft. 

J.  CRAIG  sst. 

There  is  extant  and  in  possession  of  this  Incorporation  an 
elegantly  written  copy  of  the  Letter  of  Guildry  under  which  the 
Merchants  and  the  Trades’  House  originated.  The  ink  has  somewhat 
faded,  but  the  lettering  is  perfect  and  easily  read.  This  document 
is  given  verbatim  as  No.  IX.  in  the  Appendix  of  Crawfurd’s  Trades’ 
House,  and  in  Chapter  XXIII.  of  the  same  volume  it  is  stated  that 
these  same  Letters  of  Guildry,  though  acted  upon,  were  not  confirmed 
by  Parliament  until  1672.  The  first  deacon -convener  was  nominated 
in  the  Letters  of  Guildry,  and  his  duties  generally  were  to  “judge 
betwixt  them,  and  any  of  them,  in  matters  pertaining  to  the  crafts 
and  callings,  and  shall  make  acts  and  statutes  for  good  oi’der  among 
them,  with  the  advice  of  the  rest  of  the  deacons,  and  their  assistants.” 


RELATION  TO  TRADES’  HOUSE. 


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It  is  evident  that  the  weavers  had  not  equal  rights  of  admission 
to  the  Hospital  from  1605,  as  the  following  minute  shows; — 

At  Glasgow  the  eight  day  of  December  j"'  anil 
seaventie  sex  yearis. 

The  quhilk  day,  Robert  Flaikfeild,  present  deacone  of  the  weaveris  of  the  said 
burgli,  his  maisteris  of  tread  and  most  pairt  of  the  said  calling  being  convined, 

with  James  Farrie,  present  deacon  conviner  therof,  and  taking  to  ther  serious 
consideratioune  the  loss  and  dommadge  they  sustaine  by  pajing  in  no  more  nor 
fyftine  punds  Scotis  monev  yearlie  to  the  deacon  convineris  hous,  it  being  soe  small, 
and  that  by  augmenting  therof  they  may  have  ane  kye  of  the  deacon  convineris 
box  or  hous,  and  get  als  many  men  of  ther  tread  wpon  the  said  hous  as  any  uther 
tread  lies  or  may  have  for  the  futur.  Therfor,  for  remeid  therof,  the  said  deacone, 
maisteris  of  craft,  and  most  pairt  of  the  said  calling  be  thir  piesentis  have,  be 

plurallitie  of  votis,  statut  and  bund  and  obleist  them  and  ther  successouris  in  oflice 

to  pay  in  yearlie  to  the  said  deacon  convineris  hous  in  tyme  comeing  the  soivnie 

of  threttie  punds  Scotis  money,  the  said  deacon  convineris  hous  giveing  and  granting 

ane  act  in  ther  favouris  that  the  said  weaveris  sail  have  ane  act  wherin  they  are 

to  have  ane  key  of  the  deacon  convineris  box,  and  to  have  als  many  men  Avpon  the 

hous  as  any  uther  tread  lies  at  the  first  alteratioune  of  the  hous,  and  to  he  preferred 

thairto  befor  any  uther  tread  wha  payes  not  als  much,  and  they  to  be  preferable 
to  any  uther  tread  wha  conies  in  for  that  effect  quhairvvpon  they  have  granted  the 
preraissis  and  nae  utherwayes ;  and  ordaines  extractis  heirof  to  be  given  furth  for 
that  effect  wnder  ther  clarkis  hand. 

The  representation  on  the  deaeon-convener’s  council  was  also  less 
than  four  other  Incorporations,  and  in  1771  an  effort  was  made  to 
secure  equality  as  follows 

At  the  Trades’  Hospital  the  twenty-third  day  of  May  seventeen  hundred  and 
seventy  one  years — Convened,  William  Bell  present  Deacon  .John  Robertson  late 
Deacon  with  the  whole  of  the  masters  except  one  and  a  considerable  number  of  the 
other  freemen  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  in  Glasgow  the  whole  being  warned 
as  was  verified  by  the  Trade’s  officer  present  in  Court— when  the  said  William  Bell, 
Deacon  represented  to  the  Incorporation  that  at  meeting  of  the  Convener  and 
Deacons  of  the  Incorporations  of  the  City  on  the  18th  May  currt.  there  was 
presented  a  Petition  to  them  signed  by  the  said  John  Robertson  and  some  of  the 
other  old  Deacons  of  the  Ten  Incorporated  Trades  last  in  the  order  of  the  Roll  of 
the  Trades  House,  setting  forth  that  the  said  Ten  Trades  had  a  fewer  numher  of 
members  in  the  Convener’s  council  than  the  first  four  Trades  in  the  said  roll 
had,  without  any  reason  for  it  appearing  in  the  Books  of  the  said  Trades’  house  or 
that  any  just  reason  can  be  assigned  for  it,  and  praying  for  remeid,  a  copy  of  which 
Petition  was  produced  and  read  over  in  presence  of  the  said  Incorporation  and  the 
Deacon  having  also  represented  that  at  the  said  meeting  it  had  been  objected  that 


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RELATION  TO  TRADES’  HOUSE. 


the  said  I’etition  was  given  in  without  authority  from  the  said  Ten  Incori)orations 
for  the  removing  of  wliich  ohjection  the  sai'i  Incorporation  of  weavers  unanimously 
did  and  hereby  do  approve  of  tlie  said  Petition  presented  as  aforesaid,  and  empowered 
and  hy  this  tlieir  Act  of  Trade  empower  tlie  said  William  Bell,  present  Deacon  and 
his  successors  in  office  for  and  in  name  of  this  Incorporation  humhly  to  apply  to 
the  said  Trades  House  to  grant  the  desire  of  said  Petition — That  the  whole  Incorporated 
Trades  of  the  City  shall  have  equal  numbers  of  Members  in  the  Deacon  Convener’s 
Council,  and  to  adhere  to  the  said  Petition,  and  to  subscribe  the  same  or  any  other 
Petition  or  writ  necessary  for  that  purpose,  and  the  said  Deacon  and  his  Brethern 
of  Trade  who  are  members  of  the  foresaid  Trades  House  to  do  all  in  their  power 
to  get  the  desire  of  the  foresaid  Petition  granted,  and  to  insist,  consult  and  determine 
as  members  of  the  house  in  the  said  matter  until  the  final  issue  thereof,  and  the 
said  Incorporation  hereby  agree  and  become  obliged  to  contribute  their  part  of  what 
sum  may  be  requisite  for  support  of  the  dignity  of  the  Trades  House  and  support 
of  the  poor  thereof,  and  empower  the  Deacon  and  Collector  and  their  successors  in 
office  out  of  the  Trades  funds  to  defray  the  whole  charges  that  have  already  been 
incurred  or  may  hereafter  he  incurred  in  the  said  matter,  and  ordain  Extracts  of 
this  Act  signed  hy  the  Trades  Clerk  to  he  given  out  to  the  said  Deacon  to  be  by 
him  presented  to  the  foresaid  Trades  House,  and  for  and  in  their  name  to  sign  this 
act  in  the  Trades  Book 

(Signed)  WILLIAM  BELL 

Tlie  result  was  an  action  of  declarator  in  the  Court  of  Session 
decided  in  1777,  which  gave  to  the  weavers  the  representation  now 
acted  upon,  viz.,  the  deacon  and  three  assistants. 

While  the  Letters  of  Guildry  were  confirmed  by  Parliament  in 
1672,  there  arose  further  need  of  confirmation  in  1689,  referred  to  in 
Chapter  XXIV.  of  Crawfurd’s  book,  and  the  following  minute  shows 
that  action  was  required  on  the  part  of  the  Incorporation : — 

16  of  November  1689. 

The  whilk  day,  the  deacon  and  haill  maisteris  haveing  niett  and  conveinned  in 
the  hospitall  with  William  Boill,  laitt  deacon  annent  the  hundreth  poundis  Scottis 
receaved  be  him  for  defrayeing  of  his  and  other  six  of  the  friemen  ther  charges 
both  for  man  and  horse  the  space  of  eight  dayes  in  goeing  from  this  to  Edinburgh, 
being  summoned  to  compear  befor  the  secreit  counsell  annent  the  election  of  the 
deacon  conveinner  and  payeing  for  horse  byres  ;  and  after  compt  and  reckoning  made 
be  the  said  William  Boill  to  them  of  the  forsaid  soume,  they  fand  that  the  said 
William  had  deburst  out  the  samen  and  more,  and  therfor  exonered  and  discharged 
him  therof  be  thir  presents  for  ever.  And  ordainned  me  undersubscriver  ther  clerk 
to  suhscrive  thir  presents  for  them  and  in  ther  names  for  the  said  William  Boill 
his  exoneration  in  the  premissis. 

(Signed)  R.  FYNNISONE.  clerk. 


RELATION  TO  TRADES’  HOUSE. 


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This  action  resulted  in  formal  sanction  of  “  the  sevei’al  erections  ' 
of  incorporations  and  deaconries  of  that  buj-gh  ”  (Glasgow). — Statute 
1690,  Chap.  18 — William,  and  Mary. 

The  members  of  this  Incoi’poration  who  have  held  the  office  of 
deacon-convener  are  : — 


In  1658, 
1659, 


Patrick  Bryce. 

John  Buchanan. 
Archd.  Newbit^^infT. 
John  Alston. 

John  Neil. 


1799-1800, 

1829-1830, 

1838-1839, 


There  were  at  the  foundation  of  the  Trailes’  House  30  bui’gesses 
of  the  weav’^er  craft  out  of  363  trades  rank  burgesses,  and  there  were 
213  merchant  rank  burgesses,  making  576  as  the  first  roll  of  citizens 
of  Glasgow. 

As  will  be  seen  from  the  various  Seals  of  Cause,  the  responsibility 
of  caring  for  the  poor  of  the  craft  has  always  been  upon  the  Incor¬ 
poration,  and  there  is  evidence  that  many  times  in  its  history  the 
burden  was  felt  to  be  most  onerous.  At  an  eai’ly  date  in  the  history 
of  the  Incorporation  all  tines  were  laid  aside  for  the  use  of  the 
poor,  and  indeed,  throughout,  that  has  been  the  legitimate  outlet  for 
all  money  received  by  the  Incorporation  from  every  source : — 

Quinto  Novenibris  1655. 

Tlie  said  day,  it  is  inactit  that  all  sort  of  wnlawis  that  sail  he  gott  in  tyiiie 
cuming  sail  cum  in  to  the  use  of  the  poore. 

Such  entries  as  the  following  occur  frequently  during  the  eighteenth 
and  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century : — 

At  the  Trades  Hospital  the  second  day  of  May 
seventeen  hundred  and  one  years 

The  said  day  Simeon  Tennent  present  Deacon  Convener  of  Glasgow  William 
Haddin  present  Deacon  of  the  Weavers  thereof  Masters  of  Trade  being  met  with 
the  rest  of  their  trade  when  convened  having  considered  the  great  burden  of  debt 
that  the  trade  lies  under  whereby  it  is  almost  ruined  and  the  great  number  of  their 
poor  who  are  like  to  starve  for  want  of  bread  Do  hereby  for  disburdening  themselves 


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RELATION  TO  TRADES’  HOUSE. 


and  supply  their  poor  by  plurality  of  votes  Statute  and  Ordain  that  the  quarter 
accounts  shall  he  double  and  that  is  to  say  that  every  freeman  of  the  said  trade 
Avithin  this  city  shall  pay  quarterly  for  the  use  of  the  poor  four  shillings  commencing 
from  this  day  and  so  to  continue  quarterly  for  the  space  of  seven  years  and  no 
longer  and  the  refusants  to  he  liable  in  the  double  and  ordains  the  same  to  he 
punctually  observed  and  paid  to  their  Collector  present  and  to  come  during  the  years 
above  mentioned  as  also  ordains  the  forty  shillings  Scots  payable  by  each  of  the 
neAv  Masters  to  he  only  in  time  coming  applied  for  the  use  of  the  poor  As  witness 
subscribed  by  the  Deacon  Convener  Deacon  and  Thomas  Falconer  Clerk  to  the  said 
trade  and  lastly  it  is  statute  and  ordained  that  for  the  space  of  seven  years  to  come 

Ilk  journeyman  and  prentice  that  receives  the  twa  part  of  his  winning  to  pay  one 

shilling  Scots  quarterly 

(Signed)  SIMEON  TENNENT 
THOS  FALCONER  Clk  WILLIAM  IIADDIN 

The  reason  for  increased  entry  money  is  several  times  stated  as 
being  to  meet  the  outlay  for  excessive  poor.  About  the  middle  of 

the  eighteenth  century,  and  again  at  the  closing  years,  there  are 

entries  arranging  to  purchase  meal  and  other  food  to  be  distributed 
among  the  poor  of  the  craft.  On  29th  November,  1799,  a  sum  of 

£500  sterling  was  voted  for  this  purpose.  Happily  no  such  calls 

have  come  on  the  Incorporation  since  that  time,  and  its  later  history 

in  its  relation  to  the  poor  of  the  craft,  owing  to  augmented  funds, 

shows  increasing  ability  to  give  more  substantial  help  where  it  is 
required.  An  interesting  statement  as  to  the  growth  of  the  funds  in 
modern  years  is  given  in  Appendix  III. 


VI. 

SUPERVISION  OF  TRADESMANSHIP. 

From  veiy  early  days  an  important  duty  of  tlie  deacon  and  his  court 
has  been  the  responsibility  of  maintaining  a  reputable  workmanship; 
and  it  is  always  clearly  recognised  that  defective  work  done  by  any 
member  injures  the  whole  craft : — 

(.^uiiito  Maij  1593. 

Quhilk  (lay,  the  dekiii  and  niaisteris  of  the  haill  craft  understanding  that  tlirow 
diversitie  of  price  for  wirking  of  herdein  in  tins  citie,  and  insufficiencie  of  work 
thairof,  tliair  dois  fall  furth  ane  greit  hinder  to  the  craft.  Thairfor  thai  have  statut 
and  ordanit,  that  in  all  tynies  coming,  that  Avorkeris  of  herdin  work  sail  tak  for 
ilk  elne  Aveving  vj  d.  and  niak  the  vvork  in  this  citie  thai  tak  in  hand  snllieient. 
In  case  the  said  Avork  sail  not  be  fund  sufficient,  the  Avorker  sail  get  na  payment 
for  his  Avork.  In  case  the  Avorker  sail  tak  les  nor  vj  d.  for  ilk  elne  of  herdin 
Avirking,  salbe  under  the  paine  folloAving. — to  Avit,  pay  to  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of 
craft  viij  s.  unforgeving. 

Siclyk  statutis,  that  for  ilk  elne  Aveving  of  gain  herdin  sail  tak  viij  d.  and 
inak  the  Avork  sufficient.  In  case  the  Avork  be  not  sufficient  Avrocht,  the  Avorker 
sail  get  na  payment.  In  case  the  AVorker  sail  tak  les  for  the  elne  Aveving  nor  viij  d. 
of  the  said  gam  herdin,  sail  paye  also  to  the  dekin  of  the  craft  and  maisteris 
thairof  viij  s. 

Decimo  tertio  Februarij  1595. 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  statutis  and  ordains,  that  quhosumevir  of 
thair  nombir  beis  tried  fund  and  proAut  to  have  Avrocht  ony  herdin  better  schape 
nor  vj  d.  the  elne  this  xij  moneths  byg.ane,  sail  pay  to  dekin  for  the  Aveale  of  the 
craft  XX  s. 

In  the  following  excerpt  a  limitation  is  made,  the  reason  for 
which  is  obscure  : — 

(13-2-1595) 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  for  the  Aveale  of  the  haill  craft  that  thair  be 
onlie  ane  Avollen  hvme  haldin  in  tymes  comming,  yeirlie,  in  everie  freman  of  the 
said  craftis  lions,  and  na  ma  Avollen  Iwmes,  and  gif  that  ony  freman  sail  contravein 
this  ordinance  in  tymes  comming,  sail  pay  to  the  baillies  of  this  citie  xvj  s.,  and 
ane  neAv  wpset  to  the  craft,  Avnforgevin. 


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SUPERVISION  OF  TRADESMANSHIP. 


Seemingly  it  was  desired  to  confine  the  work  strictly  to  the 

individual,  and  restrictions  were  enacted  which  compelled  this : — 

(13-2-1595) 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit,  that  na  craftisman  tak  ony  persones  work  to 

work  quhill  he  can  not  work.  In  case  he  salt  do  in  the  contrair,  sail  pay  to  the 
baillies  xvj  s.,  and  ane  new  wpset  to  the  craft. 

Item  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  nane  tak  work  and  warp  tlie  same,  and 

eftir  the  .saining  he  warppit  gave  fnrth  the  same  to  wtlieris  to  he  wollting.  In  case 
he  sail  do  in  the  contrair,  to  paye  xvj  s.  to  the  haillie.s,  and  fourtie  s.  to  the 
weale  of  tlie  craft ;  and  gif  the  work  salhe  send  furth  of  the  toun  to  he  woffin, 
sail  paye  xvj  s  to  the  baillies  and  ane  new  wpset  to  the  craft. 

Poynding  seems  to  have  been  ijuite  a  usual  occurrence,  and  is 
frequently  referred  to  : — - 

Decimo  quarto  Augusti  1596 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  statutis  and  ordeins  that  quhosoever  poynd 
in  the  craft  salhe  tane  justlie,  and  he  fra  quhome  the  saining  salhe  tane  sail  not 
louse  and  redeme  the  poynd  within  xv  dayes  nixt  eftir  the  taking  thairof,  nether 
sail  aggrie  thairanent  that  the  poynd  be  not  disponit  wpone,  that  the  said  poynd 
thaireftir  he  appraisit  and  M'sit  at  the  pleasure  of  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of  craft 
without  ony  ryght  thaireftir  to  he  clamit  to  the  said  poynd  he  him  fra  quhome  it 
was  tane. 

Decimo  octavo  die  Septembris  1596 

Quhilk  daye,  it  is  fund  that  James  Blair  promeisit  to  paye  xiij  s.  iiij  d. 
quhilk,  he  being  present,  was  spendit  in  the  effairis  of  the  craft,  as  also  it  is  fund 
that  the  said  James  stoppit  the  officiar  of  the  craft  for  poynding  for  the  said  xiij  s. 
iiij  d.,  (]uhill  the  .said  James  grantit  that  he  did,  and  thairthrow  lies  incurrit 
disobedience.  Thairfore  the  dekin  and  hrether  of  craft  decernis  the  said  James  to 
paye  to  the  craft  foure  lib.,  and  xvj  s.  to  the  baillies  wnforgeven  according  to  thair 
actis  maid  agains  disobedientis  to  ane  gud  ordour,  and  that  incontinent  but  ferder 
delaye. 

It  is  now  hardly  possible  to  determine  what  the  fabrics  referred 
to  from  time  to  time  in  the  records  really  were.  In  the  times  with 
which  we  are  at  present  dealing — end  of  the  sixteenth  and  early  in 
the  seventeenth  century — the  references  are  to  lining  and  plaiding 
(the  latter  under  varied  spellings,  such  as  pleyds,  pladdis,  and  pleydin). 
These  were  respectively  striped  and  checked  fabrics  of  homespun 
wool.  Ray  in  1661  describes  pladding  as  a  “party  coloured  blanket,” 


SUPERVISION  OF  TRADESMANSHIP. 


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while  in  1727  Defoe  describes  it  as  “a  stuff  cross-striped  with 

Yellow,  Red,  and  other  mixtures  for  the  plaids  or  veils  worn  by  the 

women  of  Scotland.”  The  two  following  extracts  refer  to  such 
work : — 

Duodecimo  Augusti  1598. 

Qiiliilk  daye,  the  dekin  maisteris  and  haill  craft  perceaveand  that  sum  of  thair 
craft  workis  wollen  cleytli  to  ane  meane  price,  and  sum  to  ane  equall  price  for 

thair  work,  to  the  hurt  and  hinder  of  utheris,  and  sclandeir  of  thair  craft.  Tliairfoir 
thai  statut  that  nane  of  tliair  craft  work  ane  elne  of  pladdein  better  chap  nor 
aucht  penneis  the  roundest  elne,  and  that  wnder  the  pane  of  xx  s. 

Vigesimo  quarto  die  mensis  Februarij  1599 

The  quhilk  daye,  the  dekin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft,  convenit  in  thair  Candilmes 
court  for  the  intreating  of  tlie  eff'airis  of  thair  craft,  and  for  the  weale  of  the 

saming,  lies  statut  and  ordenit,  and  he  tliir  presentis  statutis  and  ordenis,  that  na 
persone,  maister,  servand,  or  wyfe  of  thair  craft  tak  wpone  hand  to  sut  or  persewe 
ony  persone  to  cum  or  resort  to  thame  ather  with  lining  or  wollen  or  ony  kynd  of 
work,  hot  everie  calane  to  pas  quhen  thay  sail  pleis  best ;  and  gif  ony  persone  of 
the  craft  sail  contraveine  this  ordinance,  sail  paye  xl  s.  to  the  craft  and  xvj  s.  to 
the  baillies. 

It  was  apparently  desired  to  prevent  a  practice  of  advancing 
payment  before  the  work  was  done,  though  the  following  looks  like 
a  contradiction  in  terms 

(24-2-1599) 

Item  the  dekin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  lies  statut  and  ordanit,  as  be  thir 

presentis  statutis  and  ordenis,  that  nane  of  thair  cr.aft  tak  fra  ony  calane  of  quhome 
thai  hav’e  work  ony  kynd  of  silveir  before  the  liand,  except  the  work  be  wrochtand 
the  tyme  thai  tak  the  said  silveir  for  to  help  to  work  the  same,  wnder  the  pane 
of  xl  s.  to  the  craft,  and  xvq  s.  to  the  baillies. 

The  weavers  of  1599  seem  to  have  had  human  failings  in  seeking 
to  secure  for  themselves  ample  supply  of  work,  and  possibly  doing 
so  by  specious  promises,  which  it  was  recognised  did  a  general  injury 

to  the  trade,  so  the  Master  Court  had  to  legislate  as  follows : — 

Anent  overmekile  work  (24-2-1599) 

Item  the  dekin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  lies  statut  and  ordanit,  as  be  thir 

presentis  statutis  and  ordeins,  for  the  weale  of  the  craft,  that  quhen  it  sail  fall 
furthe  that  work  be  tane  in  be  ony  brother  of  craft  supei’abundantlie,  that  is,  mair 


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nor  lie  is  abill  to  work  and  outred  in  dewe  seasoun,  that  the  dekin  for  the  tynie 
sufier  not  the  said  work  ly  in  the  takeris  in  hand  thairof  to  the  hinder  of  the 
owneris  and  greiff  of  the  craft,  hot  that  tlie  said  dekin  intrornitt  witli  the  said 
work  and  distrihut  ane  pairt  thairof,  that  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of  his  craft  sail 
think  tlie  taker  in  may  not  work  in  dewe  tyme  to  the  said  owneris  thairof,  amang 
tiie  rest  of  the  hrethrene  of  the  craft  being  honest  men,  and  the  havear  of  the 
overmekill  work  not  to  ganstand  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of  the  craft  for  the  tjmie 
purposing  to  deale  amang  the  rest  the  said  overmekill  work  tane  in  he  him  as  said 
is,  quhill  gif  ony  brother  of  craft  sail  ganstand,  the  ganstandar  sail  paye  to  the 
craft  xl  s.  and  xvj  s.  to  the  haillies. 

(20-8-1603) 

Als  it  is  statute  that  nane  of  the  hrethrene  tak  onie  man  or  womanis  wark 
to  work,  quhill  the  hrethrene  that  hes  wrocht  to  thame  of  hefoir  he  satisfeit  quhat 
thai  have  to  lay  to  thair  charge. 

The  first  reference  to  “  linchie-winchie  ”  follows : — 

Die  xxviij  Novemhris  1604. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deakin  and  haill  hretherene  of  craft  statutis  and  settis 
doun,  that  nane  of  thame  sail  work  onie  linchie  winchie  of  the  roundest  sort  hettir 
chaip  nor  xxx  d.  ilk  ell,  and  fourtie  jiennyis  the  smallest  sort  ilk  ell,  and  quha 
workis  the  same  better  chaip  sail  pay  xx  s.  ilk  fait  to  the  box,  provyding  give  the 
said  wark  sail  not  he  sufRcientlie  and  weill  wroght,  he  that  workis  the  samyn  sail 
have  na  pryce  thairfoir.  And  this  act  to  stand  in  all  tyme  coming. 

This  was  a  fabric  of  linen  warp  with  woollen  weft,  and  appears 
later  as  “  linsey-woolsey,”  and  presumably  was  the  prototype  of  the 
article  wincey  which  in  the  middle  of  last  century  was  a  large 
item  in  Glasgow’s  textile  trade. 

The  penalties  of  broken  promises  were  severe  in  these  days : — 

(28-11-1604) 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statute  and  ordanit  that  gif  onie  brother  of  the  craft  in 
tym  coming  mak  promeis  hefoir  the  deakin  to  outred  ony  work  that  he  hes  to  work 
of  onie  persounes  hetuix  and  sic  ane  day  as  the  deakin  appoyntis  him,  and  give  he 
outred  it  not,  and  quha  evir  hi'ekis  promeis  sail  pay  xx  s.  ilk  fait,  and  be  dischargit 
of  labour  quhill  it  he  payit. 

It  looks  as  if  a  way  of  evading  the  enactment  against  taking  more 
work  than  could  be  quickly  overtaken  had  been  found  by  having 


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work  for  one  weaver  in  more  than  one  loom ;  so  further  legislation 
is  required  : — 

(8-2-1606) 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deakin  and  hretherene  statutis  that  na  brother  of  the  craft 
in  tyni  coming  have  ony  ma  loomis  in  tliair  hous  to  work  in  nor  thai  have  workeris 
to  work  thairin,  and  quha  salbe  fund  to  do  in  the  contrair,  sail  pay  xl  s.  toties 
quo  ties. 


Sexto  August!  1614. 

The  quhilk  day,  John  Allansoune  is  decernit  in  ane  wrang  of  his  awin 
confessioun  for  haveing  of  ma  full  lumis  in  his  hous  nor  he  liad  workeris  against 
the  actis  of  the  craft  and  thairfoir  is  decernit  to  pay  xl  s.  thairfoir  conforme  to  the 
said  act  and  thairefter  has  satisfiet  the  deikin  and  maesteris  for  his  offence  and  is 
dischargeit  theirof. 

Banishment  for  bad  workmanship,  thus  doing  injury  to  the  craft, 
seems  to  have  been  of  frequent  occurrence : — 

(14-2-1607) 

The  dekin,  maisteris  and  brether  of  craft  findis  Marioun  Scot  and  James 

Rankeyne,  workeris  in  thair  craft,  to  have  done  wrang  to  the  craft,  for  reparing 
of  the  wrang,  decernis  thame,  and  everie  ane  of  thame,  to  paye  thre  lib.  to  the 
craft  at  the  Avill  of  the  dekin  and  maisteris  thairof  but  farder  delaye.  And  for 
keiping  of  gud  ordour  heireftir  in  times  to  come  that  gif  thai  salbe  fund  tryit  and 
convict  to  do  auchtand  wrang  to  the  craft  be  thair  work  or  wtherwayes  that  thai 
incontinent  efter  triall  and  convicting  sal  he  put  away  furt  of  this  tonn,  and  not  to 
be  ressavit  thairin  againe,  and  quhaever  sail  ressave  thame  eftir  thai,  for  thair 
wnvorthines,  beis  put  furt  thairof,  sail  paye  ane  new  wpset  to  the  dekin  of  the 
craft  for  the  tyme,  and  the  saidis  Marioun  and  James  hes  subscry  vit  heirco 

judicialie. — 

(P.S.)  J.  Allanson,  notarius  de  mandatis  dictorum  Mariote  et  Jacobi 

Septimo  die  mensis  August!  1607 

Quhilk  day,  Bartie  Muir,  wobster,  of  his  awin  proper  confessioun,  bundis  and 
obleissis  him  willinglie  to  remove  him  furth  of  the  burght  and  toun  of  Glasgow, 
gif  that  evir  heireftir  he  salbe  fund  tryit  and  convict  to  mak  ony  insufficient  work 
in  his  craft  and  that  incontinent  efter  his  convictoun  before  the  dekin  and  maisteris 
of  his  craft,  and  never  to  enter  thairin  agane,  or  to  be  recavit  ane  brother  of  the 
said  craft,  hot  to  be  benneisit  and  expellit  furt  of  tlie  samming,  and  requeistis  the 

baillies  of  this  burght  for  the  tyme  to  interpone  thair  authoritie  to  this  band  past 

wpone  the  said  Bartie  Muir. 


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The  next  two  extracts  deal  with  irregularities.  “  Coveringis  ”  was 
probably  a  fabric  of  the  blanket  order : — 

Vigesimo  prime  die  mensis  Novembris  1607. 

Quhilk  daye,  the  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  lies  statut  and  ordenit,  and 

be  thir  presentis  statutis  and  ordenis,  tliat  nane  of  tbair  bretber  of  craft  that  workis 

coveringis  or  pladdis  sail  furneis  ony  kynd  of  yarne  to  ony  of  the  persones  that 
gavis  thame  coveringis  or  plaiddis  to  work  in  ony  tyine  to  cum,  wilder  the  pane  of 
fyve  lib.  money  for  the  first  fait  heirfore  that  eveir  ony  of  thair  craft  salbe  convict 
heiroff. 

(Quhilk  daye,  the  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  lies  statut  and  ordenit,  and 

be  thir  presentis  statutis  and  ordanis,  that  iia  brother  of  the  said  craft  sail  in  ony 

tyme  to  com  intromitt  with  or  ressave  with  ony  kynd  of  uiisuliicient  work  fra  ony 
outtintownis-man  of  craft  or  uther  unfreman  within  the  toun,  of  a  craft  or 
wtliervayis,  wilder  the  paine  of  ane  new  upset,  and  that  nane  of  thame  sail  buy 
or  sell  of  the  said  unsutficient  work  wnder  the  said  paine. 

Although  Edinburgh  and  Glasgow  were  in  these  days  separated 
by  the  slowness  of  the  inter-communication,  there  seems  to  have  been 
a  good  understanding  with  the  brethren  of  the  craft  there,  to  prevent 
dishonest  workmen  passing  from  employment  in  the  one  town  to  the 
other : — 

Decimo  Decenibris  anno  1608. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  present  understanding  that  Thomas 
Ranking,  wobster  had  feyit  himself  with  Abrahame  Ramsay,  wobster  in  Edinburgh, 
and  refuisit  to  serve  him  Tliairfoir  thai  all  in  ane  [voice]  concludit  and  inhibeit 
all  friemen  of  thair  craft  to  give  him  service  or  work  untill  the  tyme  he  satisfie 
the  said  Abrahame  for  his  service,  and  for  sik  sowniis  of  money  as  he  is  justlie 
awand  him,  under  the  pane  of  ane  new  upset. 

Gamlieckling  is  a  fabric  whose  nature  it  is  not  possible  to  trace, 
other  than  that  it  most  likely  was  of  linen,  as  “  heckling  ”  was  not 
a  process  applied  to  any  other  material.  Again  it  is  to  the  desire 
of  preserving  a  good  reputation  for  workmanship  that  we  are  indebted 
for  the  entry  : — 

Ultimo  Decembris  1608. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  haifing  tryit  and  dewlie  considderit 
that  Andro  Witherspoone  lies  wrocht  unsufficient  wark  to  Christian  Ros  in  weifing 
ane  gamhekling  wob  to  hir,  quhairby  scho  is  damnifie.  Thairfoir  the  deikin  and 
maisteris  decernis  him  in  ane  wrang  thairfoir,  and  to  pay  to  the  said  Christiane  for 


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hir  los  and  skayth,  and  in  satisfactioune  of  all  bountethe  and  payment  ressavet  xx  s. , 
and  to  weif  the  wob  frie,  and  to  pay  to  the  box  xvj  s.  money  with  als  meikle  to 
the  baillies  give  he  failzies  thairin. 

Boycotting  was  not  an  original  invention  when  applied  in  Ireland 
last  century.  What  Thomas  Bryce’s  offence  actually  was  is  not 
stated,  but  there  is  no  doubt  that  if  the  resolution  was  carried  out 
it  was  equivalent  to  banishment  from  the  town ; — 

Decimo  piimo  Februarij  anno  1600. 

The  quhilk  day,  tlie  deikin  and  maisteris,  witli  consent  of  the  haill  craft, 
undirstanding  the  greit  truble  that  Thomas  Bryce,  wobster  hes  brocht  tlii.s  toun 
into,  and  tlie  greit  contempt  and  abuis  done  be  Iiim  to  tlie  deikin  and  maisteris  in 
respect  (][uliairof  he  is  not  wurdie  of  followscliip  amangst  tliame ;  hes  thairfoir  all  in 
ane  voice  concludit  that  he  have  na  friedom  of  craft  amangst  thame  heireftir,  and 
that  he  be  scoreit  furth  of  thair  bnik  and  roll,  and  nevir  to  be  acknawledgit 
amangst  thame  untill  the  tyme  he  be  reconceillit  with  the  craft,  and  pay  ane  new 
upset.  And  als  hes  all  concludit,  statut,  and  ordanit,  that  na  frieman  of  the  said 
craft  by,  blok,  or  sell  with  him  na  kynd  of  mei’chandeis,  sick  as  yearne,  woll,  hair, 
coveringis,  or  uther  quhatsumevir,  un<ler  the  pane  of  ane  new  upset. 

Those  of  the  present  generation  who  can  go  back  to  hand-loom 
weaving  days  in  last  century  will  recognise  the  following  as  a  condition 
of  things  they  had  frequently  to  deal  with : — 

Decimo  secundo  Augusti  anno  1609. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris,  upone  consideratioune  of  the  greit 
hurt  and  prejudice  done  to  our  soverane  lordis  leiges  be  friemen  of  the  wobstercraft 
in  selling  and  laying  in  wed  honest  folkis  work  that  is  givin  thame  to  work, 
quhairby  be  thair  knaiferie  the  craft  is  .sclanderit.  Thairfoir,  and  for  renieid  thairof 
hes  all  in  ane  voice  concludit  and  ordanit  that  all  nianir  of  friemen  of  the 
wobstercraft  that  in  onie  tyme  heireftir  sellis,  disponis,  or  layis  in  wed  onie  manis 
work  givin  to  thame  to  work  sail  los  and  amit  thair  fredonie  in  the  said  craft,  and 
nevir  be  permitit  nor  sulferit  to  work  as  ane  frieman  in  the  said  craft,  hot  secludit 
thairfra  as  persounes  infamous  and  unwordie.  Requeisting  the  baillies  of  this  burght 
to  interpone  thair  authorite  heirto. 

Bad  work  is  severely  dealt  with,  as  the  two  extracts  following 
show : — 

Quinto  Februarij  1614. 

The  quhilk  day,  Richert  Kirkland  become  in  the  deikinis  will  for  the  spilt 
work  wrang  evill  wrocht  be  John  Byris,  within  the  said  Richert  his  hous,  undir  his 
commandiment. 


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The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  declairand  will  agains  Ritchert  Kirkland,  be  himself, 
and  the  maisteris  aggrieand  togidder,  decerins  the  said  Ritchert  for  his  wrang  and 
offence  foirsaid  to  pay  four  pundis  to  the  commoun  weill  of  the  craft,  and  xvi  s.  to 
the  bailzeis ;  and  requeistis  the  proveist  and  bailzeis  to  interpone  thair  authoritie 
heirto. 

xxiiij  Aprilis  1616. 

The  quhilk  day,  anent  the  complaint  and  wrang  persewit  be  Alexander  Blair, 
and  his  spoils,  agains  James  Gray,  ivobster,  for  spilling  and  wrang  working  of  ane 
small  linning  wob,  in  casting  in  round  hardin  yearine  in  the  midis  thairof,  exceiding 
four  ellis  lang,  quhilk  spillis  the  pryce  of  the  wob.  Quhilk  (complaint  hard,  and  the 
wob  dewlie  sichtit  in  presens  of  the  deikin  and  maisteris,  thai  all  in  ane  voice,  upone 
thair  conscience,  declairit  the  samin  to  be  unsufficient  work,  and  that  the  same  will 
hurt  the  pryce  of  the  wob.  Thairfor  thai  all  in  ane  voice  decerne  the  said  James, 
for  the  unsufficient  ivork,  to  pay  to  the  box  fourtie  schillinges,  with  xvj  s.  to  the 
bailzies,  and  to  keip  the  wob  to  himself,  and  pay  to  the  said  Alexander  and  his  .spous 
tiftein  schillinges  vj  d.  for  ilk  ell  thairof,  being  tuell  in  numbir,  quhilk  thai,  upone 
thair  conscience,  declair  ilk  ell  of  the  samin  wald  be  worthe  give  it  had  bein  sufficientlie 
Avrocht,  requeisting  the  proveist  and  bailzies  to  interpone  thair  authoritie  heirto  for 
the  weill  of  the  leiges. 

They,  however,  did  not  always  punish  for  an  offence,  which  may 
have  been  the  first,  and  was  probably  somewhat  alleviated  by  his 
“  awin  confessioune  ”  : — 

Sexto  Septembris  1623 

The  quhilk  day,  John  Blair,  weifer,  of  his  awin  confessioune,  is  tryit  and  convict 

for  unsufficient  work,  for  the  quhilk  he  becomes  in  the  deikin  and  maisteris  ivillis ; 

and  if  evir  he  commit  the  lyk  in  tyme  cuming,  to  los  and  amit  his  fredome  of 
craft,  and  nevir  to  work  within  this  burglit  again  as  ane  frienian. 

W.  FLEIMING,  clericus.  sst 

What  the  offence  was  that  is  dealt  with  in  tlie  next  two  extracts 
is  not  quite  clear.  Warping  had  evidently  to  do  with  it.  That  had 
not  yet  become  a  separate  trade,  and  the  weaver  who  warped  probably 
had,  when  a  difficulty  was  experienced,  the  responsibility  of  weaving 
what  he  had  warped : — 

xxvij  Junij  1627. 

The  quhilk  day,  William  Reid  is  decernit  to  tack  back  Agnes  Bargillie  hir  Avob, 

warpit  be  him,  and  to  weif  the  samin  against  Loucksmes  nixt,  the  said  Agnes 


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payand  to  him  hefoir  recept  of  the  wob,  xiij  s.  vi  d.  of  auld  debt,  and  the  deikin 
and  maisteris  to  modifie  quliat  pryce  salbe  givin  for  weiting  thairof. 

Decimo  Angusti  1627. 

Tlie  quhilk  day,  tlie  deikin  and  maisteris  all  in  ane  voice  decerins  and  ordainis 
Robert  Andirsonn  elder  to  imput  presentlie  Jonet  Dowglas,  spoils  to  Janies  Fleming, 
hir  wob  of  lining,  as  he  ipiha  warpit  the  wob,  and  promeisit  to  put  the  samin  in 
at  Lambes  last,  wes  and  weif  the  samin  with  all  diligence,  and  dischairges  him  onie 
uther  work  quhill  the  samin  be  wovin  eftir  his  lunib  beis  tnmb,  undir  the  pain  of 
ane  new  upset,  and  that,  becans,  it  is  cleirlie  provin  his  promeis  and  conditioun. 


The  boycott  is  again  in  evidence,  though  what  the  offence  was 
we  are  not  told  : — 

The  nynetein  day  of  August  1629. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  be  consent  of  the  deacon  and  maisteris 
of  craft  that  quhasoever  resavis  Thomas  Stodart  and  gifis  him  service  heireftir  sail 
pay  tuentie  pund  to  the  craft,  and  fyve  pund  to  the  baillies,  and  to  that  effect 
the  haill  honestmen  to  be  wairnit  be  the  officer. 

Mr.  G.  STIRLING. 

The  xiiij  day  of  August  1630  yeiris. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  be  consent  of  the  haill  craft,  that, 
quhasoever  he  beis  of  the  craft  that  sail  wurk  any  wark  to  Robert  Smyth,  merchand 
burges  of  Glasgow  sail  pay  four  lit.  for  well  of  the  craft  and  xxxij  s.  to  the 
baillzeis. 

The  arm  of  the  law  was  sometimes  called  in  to  deal  with 
refractory  craftsmen,  but  even  here  dire  penalties  are  only  laid  down 
for  a  recurrence  of  the  offence : — 


The  22  day  of  Julij  1631. 

The  quhilk  day,  Robert  Dalrimpill  being  convenit  befoir  the  deacon  John 
Falconer  and  the  maisteris  of  craft  within  the  hospitall  for  spilling  of  ane  linyng 
wob  pertenyng  to  Thomas  Grower ;  and  being  convick  for  spilling  thairof,  he  maist 
schamfullie  abusit  the  deacon  and  maisteris  of  craft  be  his  language  not  wordie  to 
be  hard  ;  and  being  convenit  befoir  the  [blank]  George  Barklay  and  Walter  Stirling 
baillzeis,  the  said  Robert  was  content  and  with  his  awin  consent  that  if  ever  he 
commit  the  lyk  heireftir,  he  be  thir  presentis  bindis  himsellf  to  pay  fourtie  pundis 
money  to  craft,  and  faillyeing  payment,  to  be  banissit  the  towne. 


ROBERT  DALRUMPIL.  With  my  hand. 


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We  find,  however,  the  same  Robert  Dalryrnple  dealt  with  for 
another  oftence  and  his  freedom  withdrawn : — 


Decemo  Februarij  1632. 

Tlie  quhilk  day,  the  deacon  and  inaisteris  of  craft  be  tlie  leist  the  inai.st  pairt 
tbairof,  ))eing  convenit  togedder  within  the  craftis  hospitall,  anent  the  ordour  taking 
with  Robert  Dalrymple,  ane  of  tlie  friemen  of  thair  craft  for  laying  of  warpit  wobs 
in  pledge,  and  for  selling  of  severall  personns  wobs  and  work,  to  the  great  scandall 
of  thair  craft  and  calling.  Thairfoir  they,  in  ane  voice,  for  eschewing  of  the  lyck 
in  tyni  cuming,  dischairges  the  said  Robert  Dalrymple  as  frieman  with  them,  and  of 
all  libertie  he  had  thairof  in  all  tym  cuming  ay  and  qnhill  the  said  Robert  find 
sutticient  cautioun  to  the  said  craft  that  he  sail  not  comit  the  lyck  heireftir,  and 
that  he  mak  satisfaction  to  the  craft  for  the  scandell,  and  als  mak  satisfaction  to 
Robert  Ros  and  his  spous,  and  Jonet  Hogisyaird,  pairties  damnifeit  be  him,  and 
discharges  him  of  his  libertie  qubill  then. 

A  less  penalty  is  enacted  against  the  next  offender : — 

xiiij  Novembris  1634. 

The  quhilk  [day],  the  deacon,  maisteris  of  craft,  and  memberis  thairof,  being 
all  convenit  togidder  in  the  croftis  hospitall,  for  taking  ordour  with  John  Kirlie,  ane 
of  thair  bretherin,  anent  the  wrangs,  injuries  and  great  scandall  comittit  be  bim  and 

his  servandis,  oft  and  divers  tymes,  in  wranging  of  the  Kingis  leiges,  pairtlie  throw 

not  delyvering  back  of  thair  work,  and  pairtlie  in  spilling  thairof,  with  uther  great 
wrangs  comittit  be  him  and  his  servandis,  in  the  said  croft  and  calling ;  have,  all  in 
ane  voice,  for  remeid  of  the  scandall  and  wrong  comittit  oftymes  of  befoir,  notour 
and  qualifeit  to  the  said  croft,  dischirgit,  and,  be  tbir  presentis,  discharges  the  said 
John  Kirlie  that  he,  at  na  tyme  heireftir  tak  nor  resseiv  nather  servant  nor  prenteis 
to  serve  or  work  with  him  within  this  burgh ;  and  they,  all  in  ane  voice,  under¬ 
standing  his  insiifficiencie,  declair,  that  it  sail  not  be  leasum  to  him  to  haiv  ony 

prenteis  or  servant  heireftir  notwithstanding  of  quhatsumevir  power  or  libertie  had  be 
him  to  that  effect  of  befoir. 

In  a  later  chapter  the  agreement  with  weavers  of  Gorbals  and 
Bridgend  is  noticed,  but  here  they  have  combined  with  Glasgow  in 
an  effort  to  enforce  better  workmanship  and  to  restrict  the  entrance 
of  untrained  workmen  to  the  craft : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall  of  the  Burgh  of  Glasgow  the 
3  day  of  Maij  1689. 

The  whilk  day,  Robert  Jamison,  present  deacon  of  the  weavers  of  the  said 
burgh,  William  Boil,  James  Alexander  elder,  John  Fleckfeild  youngest,  John  Armour 


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Robert  Spye,  John  Beuford,  M'llchrest,  James  Alexander  younger,  William  Watson 
younger,  John  Petecrew,  John  Winning,  William  Hadway,  John  Stephen,  lait  deacon, 
all  maisteris  of  the  said  calling,  and  John  Wilson  ther  present  collectour,  and  haill 
remanent  bretheren  of  the  said  weaver  trade  being  all  met  and  conveinned  in  the 
said  hoepitall  annent  ane  supplication  given  in  to  them  he  the  poor  of  the  said 
calling  makeing  mention  how  great  in  number  they  are  and  daillie  increasing,  and  the 
said  trade  not  able  to  sustain  them,  sua  that  many  of  the  said  poor  is  like  to  sterve 
in  regaird  of  the  callingis  povertie,  and  the  reason  and  cause  why  tlie  samen  is,  is 
by  takeing,  admitting,  and  receaving  of  sua  many  personis  in  to  be  friemen  in  the 
said  corporation,  both  of  strangers  that  comes  in  by  force  and  otheris  of  friemenis 
sonis,  friemenis  sonis  in  law,  and  prenteisses  without  makeing  the  least  shaddow  of 
ane  saij,  sua  that  by  reason  therof  the  said  calling  is  become  innumerouse,  and 
after  tlier  admissioune,  is  fund  noewayes  able  to  perform  what  they  professed,  which 
makes  them  to  turn  burdensome  to  the  said  calling,  and  to  its  ruing,  and  to  the 
rueing  of  the  forsaidis  supplicantis,  and  they  noewayes  are  found  qualified  to  serv'e 
the  liges  without  first  they  had  been  joyned  to  ane  saij  befor  ther  admissioune,  by 
omitting  wherof  lies  undone  the  said  calling  and  poor  therof  as  said  is,  and  clean 
contrare  to  the  laudable  lawes  and  liberties  of  all  burgh  royallis  and  neighbour 
callings  therin,  speciallie  the  liberties  and  friedome,  actis  and  statutis  of  all  corpora- 
tionis  within  this  kingdome  who  are  bond  to  serve  the  liges  therin  by  sufficient  work, 
conform  to  severall  actis  of  parliament  made  therannent,  as  the  said  supplication  at 
more  lenth  proportis.  Whilk  supplication  above  wrytten  the  said  Robert  Jamison, 
deacon  and  his  saidis  maisteris  and  collectour  with  the  haill  bodie  of  the  said  calling 
then  conveinned  haveing  taken  to  ther  seriouse  considerationis  the  haill  groundis  and 
reasonis  therof,  and  for  avoiding  of  all  other  incumherances  therannent  that  may 
araise  against  the  said  calling  and  poor  therof  in  all  tyme  comeing,  they  all  in  one 
voice  (nemine  contradicente)  with  consent  and  by  ordour  of  John  Waddrop,  present 
deacon  conveinner  as  also  with  consent  of  the  present  oversman  his  assessouris  and 
the  most  pairt  of  his  bretheren  of  the  weaveris  within  the  regalitie  of  Gorbellis,  who 
lies  the  like  supplication  and  act  fallowing  theron  for  preservation  of  ther  poor  and 
rights  and  liberties  concerning  ther  said  trade  dulie  inacted  in  ther  tradis  book,  the 
said  deacon,  maisteris,  and  collectour  and  remanent  bretheren  of  the  said  weaveris  of 
Glasgow,  with  consent  and  ordor  forsaid,  hath  statut  and  ordainned  and  hereby  statutis 
and  ordainis  from  henceforth  and  in  all  tyme  comeing,  that  noe  person  of  whatsomever 
rank  or  degree,  either  of  strangeris,  friemenis  sonis,  friemen  sonis  in  law  or  prenteisses 
shall  be  admitted  nor  receaved  friemen  within  the  said  corporation  without  first  they 
be  injoyned  to  ane  saij  to  be  prescrived  be  the  deacon  for  the  tyme  and  some  of 
his  maisteris,  and  saij  maisteris  appoynted  to  see  him  perform  the  forsaid  saij 
sufficientlie  done  wpon  ther  oath  of  weritie,  and  the  saijs  that  are  to  be  prescrived 
are  whatever  the  person  craveing  to  be  admitted  shall  profess,  and  he  is  to  consign 
of  saij  money  thrie  poundis ;  and  if  the  saij  soe  prescrived  be  sufficientlie  don  be 
him  who  desyres  to  be  frie,  he  is  to  be  receaved  in  as  ane  frieman  be  payeing  his 
dewes  conform  to  use  and  wont ;  and  if  the  saij  be  not  sufficientlie  performed,  he  is 
not  to  be  receaved  nor  admitted.  And  what  deacon  and  maisteris  hereafter  shall 


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happen  to  breck  or  contradick  any  pairt  of  this  present  act  shall  be  lyable  with 
consent  of  the  said  liaill  calling  in  the  sounie  of  tuentie  ponndis  Scottis  money 
proportion alie  to  be  payed  to  the  deacon  and  maisteris  for  the  tyme  sua  aft  and  how 

aft  it  shall  happen  them  to  transgrese  any  pairt  of  tliis  present  act  in  all  tyme 

comeing ;  and  the  samen  fyn  to  be  payed  in  to  the  collectour  for  the  tyme  for  the 
use  and  behoufe  of  poor  of  the  said  calling,  attour  that  the  transgressaris  hereof 

shall  be  holden  and  reput  as  breckeris  of  the  laudable  custome  rights  and  liberties 

of  the  forsaid  corporation  and  all  other  corporationis  within  this  kingdome.  And 
this  they  ordaine  to  stand  as  ane  perpetuall  act  unalterable  in  all  tjune  comeing. 
And  ordainned  me  undersubscryver  ther  clerk  for  that  effect  to  subscrive  thir  presents 
for  them  and  in  ther  names. 

(Signed)  R.  FYNNISONE,  clerk. 


VIL 


MEETINGS  AND  PLACES  OF  MEETING. 

There  are  no  separate  records  of  meetings  of  the  Incorporation,  other 
than  those  of  the  Master  Court,  until  last  century.  The  earliest  accessible 
minute  book  commences  in  1591,  and  a  second  book  brings  us  con¬ 
tinuously  to  1683.  An  account  book  covers  the  later  part  of  that 

period,  and  continues  about  forty  years  bej’ond  it,  with,  occasionally, 
resolutions  of  the  Master  Court  appearing  among  the  accounts,  and 
there  is  also  a  book  containins:  headiiiirs  and  extracts  from  the  minute 
books  of  the  years  now  amissing.  This  book  has  entries  as  late  as 
1820,  but  the  part  referred  to  above  was  probably  copied  in  from 

the  original  minute  book  lifty  years  earlier.  These  earlier  minute 

books  have  afforded  the  matter  of  which  this  book  is  mainly  composed, 
and  their  preservation  is  the  principal  purpose  of  its  publication. 
Considering  the  times,  the  ideas  of  those  conducting  the  meetings  are 
exceedingly  business-like.  Were  it  possible  that  such  lively  proceed¬ 
ings  as  are  referred  to  in  the  previous  and  succeeding  chapters  could 
now  take  place,  it  is  hardly  likely  that  the  recorder  would  set  down 
the  details.  They  were,  in  these  days,  not  afraid  to  call  a  spade  a 
spade,  and  the  natural  man  spoke  out  what  he  thought,  giving  a 
reality  and  picturesqueness  even  to  so  prosaic  an  affair  as  the  records 
of  a  trades  court  meeting. 

From  1793  onwards  there  is  more  routine  and  uninteresting  matters 
recorded.  Towards  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  and  during  the  first 
thirty  years  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  weaver  has  become  a 
politician,  and  there  will  be  found  in  Chapters  X.  and  XVI.  much  more 
reference  to  the  later  minuted  history  of  the  Incorporation. 

The  earliest  minutes  bearing  any  indication  of  the  locality  in  which 
meetings  recorded  took  place  name  the  Hie  Kirk  or  the  Session 
House,  but  soon  after  the  formation  of  the  Trades’  House  many  are 
headed  Crafts’  or  Croftis  Hospital  or  Alms  House,  Stabil  Green,  and 


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in  1665  one  minute  bears  that  the  meeting  was  held  in  the  “  foir 
towre  of  the  Castel  of  Glasgow.”  The  minute  first  quoted  in  Chapter  V., 
dated  1704,  gives  evidence  that  the  Hospital  was  built  then,  and 
there  is  great  probability  that  the  conjoining  of  the  trades  in  owning 
an  Almshouse  was  coincident  with  their  forming  themselves  into  the 
Trades’  House.  There  is  an  entry  in  the  burgh  records  as  follows : — 

Flitting  of  the  Subdean— 15  July  1589.— The  quhilk  day  Mr  Patrick  Walkin- 
schaw,  subdeiie  of  Glasgow,  is  decernit  and  ordanit  to  Hitt  and  remoue  himselfe, 
servandis,  and  guidis,  incontinent,  furtli  and  fra  ane  south  mid  chaliner,  occupiet  be 
him  of  the  tenement  of  the  Almous  hous,  besyde  the  Castell. 

M‘Ure  describes  the  buildings  around  the  Castle  of  Glasgow 
as  they  stood  in  1747,  evidently  to  the  west  of  the  Cathedral,  and 
the  Trades’  Hospital  referred  to  is  known  to  have  occupied  part 
of  the  site  of  the  Townhead  Gasworks.  His  description  is  as 
follows : — 

“Adjoining  [the  Castle]  is  St  Nicholas’  Chapel  and  Hospital,  removed  in  1808 
to  permit  of  the  formation  of  St  Nicholas’  Street,  now  St.  Nicholas'  Place.  To  the 
left,  is  the  Alms  House  or  Old  Trades'  Hospital,  with  its  Gable  and  Belfry  fronting 
the  street  and  projecting  over  the  Footway.  It  was  erected  during  the  17th  Century 
as  a  Retreat  for  a  certain  number  of  reduced  Members  of  the  14  Incorporated  Crafts, 
and  stood  upon  the  site  occupied  in  earlier  times  by  the  Prebendal  Manse  of  More- 
battle.  Probably  an  older  Building  of  the  same  nature  preceded  this.” 

“The  Trades’  House  lodged  and  boarded  in  it  first  5,  and  afterwards  13  poor 
Freemen  of  the  Trades'  rank  i.e.  Mechanics  who  were  styled  The  Poor  Men  of  the 
House.  They  were  clothed  in  an  ample  Coat,  Waist  Coat,  and  Knee-Breeks  of  blue 
serge,  with  blue  Hose  having  lappets  over  the  latchets  and  heels  of  the  Brogue-Shoes, 
which  were  stuffed  with  straw.  Attaclied  to  the  House  was  a  small  hall  where  the 
Members  of  the  Trades’  House  used  to  meet  prior  to  the  erection  of  the  Trades’ 
Hall  in  Glassford  Street,  in  1791,  decorated  by  14  Paintings,  emblematic  of  the 
several  Trades,  by  6  Portraits  of  Benefactors  to  the  Charity,  and  by  Inscriptions 
recording  the  gifts  of  others.  In  Oct.,  1806,  a  Committee  reported  that  the  whole 
ground,  including  the  Alms  House,  should  be  sold  hy  public  Roup,  at  7s  6d  a  square 
yard.  On  tlie  21st  March,  1807,  the  ground,  with  the  Building,  was  sold  at  12s.  Id. 
a  square  yard,  to  the  Incorporation  of  Cordiners,  the  price  being  converted  at  5  per 
cent,  into  a  Ground  Rent  of  £131  14s  2d.  The  Cordiners  sold  the  ground  to  the 
first  Gas  Company,  and  it  now  forms  a  part  of  the  site  of  their  present  Works.” 

Many  of  the  minutes  do  not  mention  any  place  of  meeting,  but 
the  probability  is  that,  generally,  until  1683  the  meetings  were  held  in 


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the  Crafts’  Hospital,  but  on  special  occasions  the  adjacent  buildings 
in  the  Castle  and  Cathedral  were  made  use  of. 

In  the  eighteenth  century  there  are  entries  of  meetings  in  the 
Laigh  Church  and  the  Tron  Church  as  well  as  the  places  named 
above. 

The  records  from  1793  till  the  present  time  generally  name  the 
new  Trades’  Hall  as  place  of  meeting,  but  frequently  public-houses 
are  mentioned,  especially  in  the  early  part  of  last  century.  For  the 
last  sixty  years  the  Trades’  House,  Glassford  Street,  has  been  the 
usual  place  of  meeting  for  the  Master  Court  and  the  Incorporation. 


VIII. 


DISCIPLINE. 

The  position  of  deacon,  as  we  saw  in  Chapter  II.,  was  eagerly  sought 
after  and  considered  desirable,  but,  as  will  be  seen  from  what  follows, 
the  rose  was  not  without  its  thorn.  He  seems  to  have  had  more 
than  his  share  of  the  rough  tongue  of  those  who  differed  from  him. 
In  many  cases  the  language  was  considered  too  flagrant  for  verbatim 
record,  and,  by  deduction  from  what  is  set  down,  it  must  have  been 
“  painful  and  free.”  The  gentler  sex  are  the  first  offenders  in  the 
records : — 

Secundo  Novembria  1594 

The  dekin  and  haill  craft  ordains  that  nane  of  them  work  work  to  Elspay 
Mitchell  and  Marion  Watirson  heireftir  under  the  pane  of  ane  new  upset,  and  that 
becaus  the  said  twa  wenien  ar  vast  slanderaris  of  Robert  Dobbie  and  Allane  Uinzet, 
twa  honest  men  of  thair  craft. 

Duodecimo  Maij  1597 

The  dekin  and  maisteris  of  craft  discharges  and  inbibitis  Malie  Brysoun,  David 
Gemmill,  and  Williame  Geinmill,  in  ony  sort,  to  trubill,  be  word  or  deid,  Agnes 
Bargillie,  spous  to  Alexander  Gemmill  in  ony  tymes  to  cum  wnder  the  pane  of  ane 
new  wpset  to  the  craft,  and  thre  lib.  to  the  sessioun  of  Glasgow.  As  also  dischargis 
the  said  Williame  being  trublesum  to  the  said  Agnes  of  ony  ferder  working  vuth  the 
said  Alexander.  As  also  inhibitis  the  said  Agnes  to  be  trublesum  be  word  or  deid 
to  ather  of  the  saidis  Malie,  David  or  Williame  heireftir,  Avnder  the  pane  of  ane  new 
upset  and  thrie  lib.  to  the  kirk. 

But  even  the  men  are  not  able  to  keep  their  counsel,  and  an 
enactment  of  secrecy  is  necessary : — 

Anent  revilaris.  Decimo  tertio  Novembris  1602. 

The  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  statutis  and  ordenis  that  quhaever  of  the 
craft  being  dekin  and  maisteris  presentlie  or  sail  happin  to  be  heireftir,  and  for  the 
weale  of  thair  craft,  sail  convein  and  advise  amang  thameselfis  for  the  weale  of  thair 
craft  in  thair  privie  conference  and  counsile,  and  ony  of  thame  that  salbe  on  counsile 
sail  revile  the  woittis  and  jugementis  of  the  said  dekin  and  maisteris  to  ony  of 
quhome  thai  salbe  in  conference,  salbe  reconit  wnvorthie  to  be  in  counsile,  and  salbe 
put  out  of  his  office,  and  another  placed  in  the  same. 


DISCIPLINE. 


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The  two  extracts  following  show  that  the  offended  in  the  earlier, 
has  become  the  offender  in  the  later  entry,  the  case  being  altered 
evidently  altering  the  case : — 

Die  XX  Augusti  1603. 

The  quliilk  day,  William  Wood  is  decernit  to  cum  in  the  deakynis  will  of  xvj  s. 
unlaw  for  in\ading  and  geving  evill  wordis  to  Robert  Stewart  in  his  awin  hous,  he 
being  ane  maister  of  craft. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deakin  and  haill  brethrene  of  craft  eondicendis  that  William 
Baird  sail  not  be  resavit  in  service  with  na  freman  of  the  craft  unto  the  tyme  lie 
mak  satisfactioun  to  Richard  Kirkland,  deakin  of  the  wrung  done  to  him. 

Die  xij  July  1604 

The  quhilk  day,  Archibald  Patersoun,  deakin,  accompaneit  with  his  maisteris  and 
haill  bretherene  of  craft,  lies  statute  and  ordanit  all  in  ane  voce  that  give  onie 
brother  of  craft  in  tym  coming  sail  misuse  his  deikin  ather  in  word  or  deid,  or  yit 
mak  onie  tumult  in  presens  of  the  deikin  to  onie  brother  ather  be  word  or  deid, 
quhat  brother  contravenis  sail  pay  ane  new  upsett,  and  xvj  s.  to  the  baillies,  and 
mak  aniendis  at  the  deakin  and  bretherenis  wdllis.  And  in  the  meintyme  Richard 
Kirkland  is  becum  in  the  deakynis  will  for  the  offence  done  be  him  to  the  deakin, 
and  the  said  Richard  lies  satisfeit  for  the  wrung. 

J.  CRAIG,  sst 

Here  the  penalty  of  banishment  is  threatened  for  “  misreport  ” : — 

Die  viij  Pebrnarij  1606. 

The  quhilk  day,  Cudbert  Miller  of  his  awdn  consent  and  content,  that  give  it 
be  fund  that  he  mak  misreport  quhat  langage  betuix  ony  frenien  of  the  craft  in  tym 
to  cum,  that  he  can  not  qualitie ;  the  first  tyme  he  beis  convict  thairof  to  be  baneist 
the  toun,  nor  yit  blaspheme  ony  maister  he  is  with  in  service. 

The  next  extract  shows  what  measures  were  taken  to  enforce 
the  payment  of  fines  imposed  by  the  Master  Court : — 

Decimo  quarto  Februarij  1607. 

Quhilk  day,  the  dekin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  understanding  that  Williame 
Kirkland,  ane  of  thair  brother  of  craft,  with  his  awin  hand,  for  obedience  of  the 
decreit  of  the  said  maisteris  decerning  him  to  paye  sex  lib.  for  his  wrung  to  the 
dekin,  delyverit  ane  hagbut  and  ane  pan  of  his,  quhilk  lies  lyin  lang  wnloosit,  and 
he,  chargit  to  redeme  the  same  be  paying  of  the  said  sex  lib.,  refusit.  Thairfore 
the  said  dekin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  ordenis  the  saming  to  be  tane  to  the  mercat 
croce  of  this  burght  incontinent  and  thair  to  be  roppit  be  thre  sworne  men  of  the 
craft,  and  silveir  maid  thairof  for  paying  of  the  said  sex  lib.  sw'a  far  as  the  saming 
will  extend  to. 


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DISCIPLINE. 


The  unruly  member  causes  many  of  the  enactments,  and  at  this 
period  seems  to  have  been  a  fruitful  source  of  trouble  to  the  deacon 
and  his  masters:  — 

Decinio  quarto  Novembris  1607 

Quliilk  daye,  the  dekin,  maisteri.s,  and  liaill  eraft  lies  statiit  and  ordanit,  and  be 
tliir  presentis  statu tis  and  ordanis  according  to  equitie  and  ressoun,  tliat  nane  of  thair 
craft  sail  blaspheme  the  blessit  name  of  God  heireftir,  sclander  or  traduce  ane  of 
thame  wtheris  in  ony  tyme  to  cum  wnder  the  pane  of  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  money  to  be  payit 
be  the  contravenar  heirof  to  the  dekin  of  the  craft,  and  making  repentance  to  the 
persone  sclanderit  or  traduced  by  the  unlaw  of  the  kirk,  and  making  publict  repen- 
tatioune  as  the  kirk  and  sessioun  sail  prescryve. 

Sexto  Februarij  anno  1608. 

Tlie  quhilk  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  hailing  weill  considerit  the 
misbehavio'ir  of  Daniell  Bryce,  prenteis  to  Thomas  Bryce,  to  the  said  Thomas  his 
maister,  and  of  the  schamefull  and  blasphemeous  language  givin  to  his  said  maister, 
lies  thairfoir  all  in  ane  voice,  for  the  said  contempt  and  dissobedience,  and  for  the 
said  Daniellis  depairting  frome  his  said  maister,  dischargeit  and  refuisit  him  as  ane 
prenteis  in  the  craft,  and  to  have  na  priveledge  thairin  as  ane  burges  sone,  unto  sick 
tyme  as  he  give  in  his  supplicatioun  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  offering  him  be 
thair  sicht  to  mak  ane  condigne  amendis  thairfoir  to  the  said  Thomas,  and  that  he 
repair  his  said  wrang. 

The  authority  of  even  the  “  baillie  ”  is  not  sufficient  to  compel 
the  attendance  of  the  next  offender,  and  his  words  as  recorded  hardly 
warrant  the  severe  sentence  imposed.  Debarring  him  from  work  would 
not  facilitate  the  payment  of  the  fine : — 

Vigesimo  quarto  mensis  Octobris  anno  1612. 

The  quhilk  day,  Johne  Clark,  deikin  of  wobsteris  and  haill  maisteris  thairof 
being  conveinit  for  ordour  taking  with  Michall  Wilsoune  for  his  misbehaviour  to  the 
deikin  in  thir  wordis  following :  The  said  Michall  being  personallie  warnit  be  the 
craftis  officer  to  compeir  this  day  compeirit  not,  the  haill  maisteris,  be  dew  tryell 
and  examinatioun  of  witnessis,  findis  the  said  Michall  to  have  injurit  the  said  Johne, 
his  deikin,  in  thir  wordis,  saying  to  him  quhen  he  was  commandit  be  the  baillies 
authoritie  and  deikins  command  to  deliver  ane  wob,  that  he  Avald  not  deliver  the 
same  for  him  and  all  the  wobsteris  of  Glasgow,  and  for  saying  to  the  deikin,  I  cair 
not  ye  man,  yow  hes  done  ma  wranges  to  the  wobsteris,  I  sail  tell  ane  wors  taill 
of  ye,  with  monie  ma  injurious  wordis.  Thairfoir,  for  his  contempt  to  the  deikin 
and  dissobedience  in  not  compeirance,  the  haill  maisteris  in  ane  voice  decerins  the 
said  Michall  to  pay  ane  new  upset  to  the  craft,  and  five  pundis  to  the  baillies,  and 
ordainis  him  to  be  dischairgit  of  labour  quhill  the  upset  and  baillies  unlaw  be  payit, 
at  leist  during  the  baillies  and  deikinis  will,  and  requeistis  the  bailzeis  of  this  burgh 
to  interpone  thair  authoritie  heirto. 


DISCIPLINE. 


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The  readei’S  of  the  present  clay  will  be,  like  the  delinquent  mentioned 
in  the  following  extract,  unable  to  understand  how  his  offence  could  be 
hurtful  to  the  craft.  “  Sicht  ”  was,  no  doubt,  to  inspect,  and  “  graythe  ” 
was  the  material  with  wliich  the  weaver  wrought,  but  the  present 
writer  has  been  unable  to  discover  the  meaning  of  “  wissie  ” : — 

Vigesimo  prinio  Aprilis  anno  1613. 

The  quliilk  day,  Wm  Kirkland,  pre.sent,  being  accuisit  for  going  to  Govane, 
without  leif  of  the  deikin  and  raaisteris,  to  sicht  and  wissie  wobsteris  work  and  graythe, 
tlie  said  William  confessit  his  offence,  with  protestationne  solemlie  maid,  that  he 
understuid  not  the  samin  to  be  hiirtfull  to  the  commoun  cveill  of  the  craft,  and 
thairfoir  become  in  the  deikin  and  maisteris  willis  for  his  offence,  promeising  nevir 
to  do  the  lyk  in  na  tymes  cuming. 

Thaireftir,  the  deikin  and  maisteris  declairing  thair  willis,  decerins  the  said 
William  Kirkland  to  pay  to  the  commoun  weill  four  pundis  of  penultie,  and  all  in 
ane  voice  decerins  and  declair  him,  and  all  nther  frieman  of  the  craft  quhatsmevir 
that  comittis  the  lyk  offence  in  tyme  cuming,  to  be  simpliciter  secludit  fra  beiring 
of  office  in  the  craft,  and  fra  all  voit  in  electioune  for  evir. 

The  two  extracts  following  deal  with  the  same  case ;  the  method 
enjoined  for  making  amends  we  should  have  thought  would  have 
commended  itself  to  Alexander  Gemmill.  He  may  have  been,  if  such 
a  person  was  known  in  these  days,  a  teetotaler : — 

ix  Martij  1614. 

The  quhilk  day,  Allexander  Gemmill  being  accuisit  befoir  the  bretherein  of  craft 
for  blaspheming  of  his  deikin,  Georg  Schirilaw,  in  calling  him  dyvour  loun,  not  wordie 
to  be  deikin,  with  utheris  sclanderous  wordis  conteinit  in  the  bill  of  complaint,  the 
said  Allexander,  present  of  his  awin  Me  will,  uncoactit  or  compellit,  come  in  the 
maisteris  and  remanent  bretherein  present  thair  willis  for  his  offence,  subjecting 
himself  to  thair  decrie  thairanent.  The  haill  maisteris  present  with  sundrie  ntheris 
of  the  craft,  in  ane  voice,  decerins  the  said  Allexander,  in  all  humilitie,  to  drinck 
to  the  said  Georg,  and  confes  his  fault  faythfullie,  promeising  nevir  to  commit  the 
lyk,  and  to  pay  of  unlaw  four  pundis,  to  be  usit  be  the  deikin  and  maisteris  advys, 
with  xvi  s.  to  the  baillies  requeisting  the  proreist  and  baillies  to  interpone  thair 
authoritie  to  this  decreit. 

Sexto  Maij  1614. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  maisteris  and  haill  craft  in  ane  voice  concludis,  that 
Allexander  Gemmill,  wobster,  sail  nevir  heireftir  beir  office  in  the  craft,  nather  deikin 
nor  maister  of  craft,  and  that  for  his  injuring  of  Georg  Schirilaw,  his  deikin,  in 
calling  him  ane  knaifveische  knave,  sen  his  last  offence  commitit  agains  the  said 
Georg,  untill  sick  tyme  as  the  said  Allexander  mak  satisfactioune  to  the  deikin  and 
niaisteris  thairof. 


I 


6G 


DISCIPLINE. 


Apparently  the  next  delinquent  complied  with  tlie  sentence  imposed, 
as  his  case  does  not  recur : — 

Prinio  Maij  1616. 

The  same  day,  James  Gray,  of  his  awin  consent,  frelie  became  in  the  deikin, 
maisteris,  and  haill  craftis  will,  for  his  offence  done  to  Georg  Schirilaw,  deikin,  in 
his  office,  saying  that  he  had  done  him  wrang  to  move  Alexander  Blair  his  wyfe  to 
persew.  Thairefter  the  haill  bretherin  in  ane  voice  decernit  the  said  James  Gray, 
for  his  offence,  to  pay  fourtie  schillinges  to  the  craft,  and  xvi  s.  to  the  bailzies,  and 
to  drink  to  his  deikin  and  ask  him  forgiveines  thairfoir  in  all  humilitie. 

Again  the  perils  of  deaconship  are  in  evidence.  One  threatens 
the  Deacon’s  life,  and  another  breathes  a  terrible  defiance  against  him. 
We  may  be  grateful  that  the  office  is  now  free  of  such  terrors: — 

(1-5-1616) 

The  same  day,  the  maisteris  all  in  ane  voice,  decernis  Robert  Findlay  in  ane 
wrang,  be  probatioun  of  famous  witnessis,  for  injuring  of  John  Baird,  his  deikin,  in 
saying  to  him,  away  furt  of  my  sicht,  I  sail  put  ane  knyfe  to  tin  heart ;  and  thair¬ 
foir  is  decernit  to  pay  ane  new  upset,  and  ordanit  to  be  dischargit  of  labour,  ai  and 
quhill  he  satistie  the  deikin  in  homage,  be  the  maisteris  sicht. 

xix  Maij  1619. 

The  quhilk  day,  anent  the  bill  and  complaint,  givin  in  be  Archibald  Patersoun, 
deikin,  agains  Thomas  Aiking,  for  injuring  of  him, — saying,  he  defyit  him,  he  sould 
nevir  get  ane  amendis  of  him,  and  he  war  hangit  and  all  that  wald  tack  his  pairt ; 
the  said  Thomas,  present,  deny  it  the  bill.  Thaireftir  the  haill  maisteris,  hailing  dewlie 
tryit  the  complaint,  and  examinat  diveris  and  sundrie  famous  witnessis  thairupone,  all 
in  ane  voice  decernis  the  said  Thomas  in  ane  wrang  for  injuring  of  his  deikin  in  the 
wordis  foirsaid  ;  dewlie  provin,  and,  thairfoir,  decernis  the  said  Thomas  to  pay  ane 
new  upset  to  the  box,  for  the  commoun  effairs  of  the  craft,  with  xl.  s.  to  the  bailzies, 
and  als  to  be  dischargeit  of  labour  quhill  he  first  satisfie  the  upset,  and  ask  the 
deikin  forgiveines  upone  his  kneis,  and  the  haill  craft  publictlie,  and  he  reconceillit 
to  thame  again  befoir  he  be  ressaveit  frie,  and  declairis  the  new  upset  to  be  tuentie 
pundis ;  requeisting  the  proveist  and  bailzies  to  interpone  thair  authoritie  heirto. 

7  February  1621. 

The  same  day,  Archibald  Thomesoun  become  in  the  deikin  and  maisteris  will  for 
his  offence  in  speiking  injuriouslie  agains  the  deikin,  being  laufulie  prohibeit  to  give 
work  to  prenteis  or  servand,  quhill  thai  war  buikit  in  the  craftis  buik. 

Many  similar  incidents  appear  about  this  period,  and  they  are 


DISCIPLINE. 


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^iven  here  as  records  of  what  constituted  oftences  as  well  as  how 
the  Master  Court  dealt  with  such  offenders ; — 


XV  Maij  1621. 

Tlie  same  day,  Harie  Davidsoune  heirby  bindis,  actis,  and  obleissis  himself  of 
his  awin  consent,  to  pay  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  tuenty  pundis  money,  and  fyve 
pundis  to  the  bailzies,  in  caice  lie  be  tryit  heireftir  to  injure  be  word  John 
Patersoun,  weifer. 

Vigesimo  octavo  June  1621. 

The  quhilk  day,  anent  the  complaint  givin  in  be  John  Clark,  deikin,  agains 
Williame  Allansoune,  for  injuring  him  in  his  office,  becaus  he  commandit  him  to 
weife  Janies  Hallis  wob,  saying  to  him  he  durst  not  luik  in  ane  bailzies  faice, 
thrawing  his  faice  and  girning  conteinjitibilly  upone  him  as  deikin.  The  maisteris 
and  haill  craft  present,  haifing  dewlie  tryit  the  complaint,  tindis  that  the  said  William, 
contrar  to  the  actis  of  craft,  lies  injurit  his  deikin  in  his  office,  speiking  to  him 
contemptibilly,  without  reverence,  the  ivordis  foirsaidis,  thrawing  his  faice  and  grinning 
dispytfullie  upone  his  deikin,  and  als  persisting  thairin,  contemptibilly,  this  day,  the 
tyme  of  his  ceusour.  And  thairfoir  is  decernit  and  ordainit  to  pay  ane  new  upset 
to  the  box,  and  threttie  tua  s.  to  the  bailzies,  and  to  be  dischairgit  of  labour  quhill 
the  same  be  payit,  and  nevir  to  be  reput  ane  frieman  again.  Kequeisting  the 
bailzies  to  interpone  thair  authoritie  heirto. 

Quarto  Julij  1621 

The  quhilk  day,  William  Kirkland,  weifer,  is  become  actit,  bund,  and  obleist, 
of  his  awin  consent,  as  catiouner  for  William  Allansoun,  weifer,  that  he  sail  concent 
and  pay  to  the  craft  and  box,  the  sowme  of  twentie  pundis  money,  for  ane  new 
upset,  and  that  at  sick  terme,  and  tyme,  as  thai  sail  appoynt  and  designe  for  his 
oflence  cominitit  agains  the  deikin. 

(Signed)  WILLIAM  KIRKLAND. 


The  same  day,  the  said  William  Allansoun  is  become  actit  and  obleist  of  his 
awin  consent,  to  Marrand,  releife,  and  skaytles  keip  the  said  William  Kirkland  of 

his  becomeing  catioun  for  him  for  the  upset  abovewrittin,  and  of  all  danger  he  can 

incure  thairthrow. 

W.  FLEMING,  sst 

Then  there  follow  about  the  spiciest  in  the  whole  records. 
John  Patersoune  seems  to  have  fallen  foul  of  two  deacons  in 

succession,  and  to  have  had  a  remarkable  gift  of  invective.  The 
picturesqueness  of  his  language  shows  that  the  weavers  of  the 


68 


DISCIPLINE. 


seventeenth  century  had  an  earlier  form  of  these  imaginative  qualities 
which  gave  us  the  weaver  poets  of  a  later  period : — 

Septimo  November  1621. 

The  quhilk  day,  John  Patersoune,  present,  confessit  that  he  reckleslie,  and  in  his 
angir  had  offendit  his  deikin,  John  Baird,  in  thir  wordis,  saying  to  him  the  divill 

tir  the  skin  af  him,  for  the  quhilk  lie  become  in  the  deikin  and  maisteris  will, 

subvirting  himself  to  thair  sentence  and  decreit,  quha  all  in  ane  voice  decernit  the 
said  Johne  Patersoune  to  pay  four  pundis  penultie,  and  to  ask  the  said  John  Baird 
forgiveines  upone  his  kneis  in  all  humilitie,  and  in  the  meantyme  the  maisteris  referis 
the  four  pundis  in  the  deikinis  will. 

Septimo  August  1622 

The  quhilk  day,  Michaell  Scot  is  decernit  to  deliver  to  John  Clark,  weifer,  ane 

beim,  grantit  and  confessit  be  him  to  be  borrowit  fra  the  said  John  ane  yeir  syne, 

or  thairby,  or  ellis  fourtie  schillinges  thairfoir ;  and  that,  becaus,  the  said  Michaell 
allegit  he  deliverit  the  same  to  John  Patersoune  at  his  command,  and  failzeit  to 
prove  the  same,  diveris  tennis  being  assignit  to  him  for  that  eflect. 

Vigesimo  primo  Decembris  1622. 

The  quhilk  day,  in  presens  of  the  maisteris  of  the  weiferis  of  the  brughe  of 
Glesgow,  William  Kirkland,  Johne  Patersoune,  and  George  Patersoune,  his  brother, 
weiferis,  all  personnalie  present,  ar  fund  and  tryet,  be  probatioune  of  famous  witnessis, 
led  and  ressavet  against  them,  to  hawe  injured  and  contemned  John  Clark,  thair 
present  deikin,  in  thir  wordis  fallowing :  —That  is,  the  said  Williame  Kirkland,  for 
saying,  within  the  tolbuithe,  about  ten  dayes  since  or  thairby,  quhen,  as  the  said 
Johne  Clarke  was  pleiding  befoir  the  bailzeis  with  the  said  George — “fye,  fye,”  ife 
I  had  beine  thair,  I  sowld  have  raschet  ane  quhinger  in  him,  and  maid  the  craft 
quyt  of  black  Jocke.  And  the  said  Johne  Patersoun  for  saying,  that,  the  said  Johne 
Clarke  was  thryse  mensworne  the  day  of  his  electioun,  and  at  the  Hallow  court  last, 
for  saying  to  him,  in  his  faice,  contemptabillie,  that,  he  and  his  bund  slaves  rewlet 
all  the  craft.  And  the  said  George  Patersoune  for  saying  to  him, — I  sail  skinne 
thy  chaftes,  and  tack  ane  buckie  afe  thy  cheike,  and  als  for  vanting  of  his  injures 
and  wranges  done  to  the  said  Johne  Clarke  sen  syne,  saying,  that,  he  had  gart  him 
play  clatter  on  the  cassie  lyk  ane  awld  pige,  and  that  he  and  his  brother  had 
woundit  him  wpon  the  heid  with  ane  beime  stalfe  heid.  Thairfoir  thei  and  everie 
ane  of  them  ar  decernet  in  ane  wrang  thairfoir ;  and  ilk  ane  of  them  decernet  to 
pay  ane  new  upsett  to  the  craft,  with  threttie  twa  schillinges,  ilk  ane  of  them,  to 
the  bailzeis  of  Glesgow,  for  thair  injure  and  contempt  of  thair  deiking ;  and  ar 
ordaint  to  he  discharget  of  labour  quhill  the  samin  be  payet;  and  ilk  ane  of  them 
decernit  and  ordainet  to  aske  the  said  Johne  Clark,  thair  deikin,  forgivenes  publictlie 
wpon  thair  kneis. 


DISCIPLINE. 


69 


These  worthies  do  not  seem  to  have  had  any  greater  respect  for 
places  than  they  had  for  persons,  and  there  is  a  Gilbertian  “  fitting 
of  the  punishment  to  the  crime”  in  the  sentence  pronounced  in  the 
Andirsoun  case  given  below : — 

( 2uinto  Maij  1 624. 

The  quhilk  clay,  Thoma-s  Aiking,  weifer,  is  fuud  and  tryit  be  probatioiin  of 
famous  Avitnessis,  led  and  ie.ssaveit  and  exaniinat,  to  have  sclanderit  and  injurit 
Thomas  Andersoun,  deikin,  in  John  Lockis  hous,  nyne  nightis  bygain,  in  calling  him 
ane  luger  and  river,  and  ane  oppressour,  and  thairfoir  is  decernit  to  pay  ane  new 
upset  to  the  box,  and  threttie  tua  schillinges  to  the  bailzies,  and  is  dischairgit  of 
labour  quhill  lie  pay  ane  new  upset,  and  ask  the  deikin  forgivnes  upone  his  kueis, 
requesting  the  proveist  and  bailzies  to  interpone  thair  authoritie  heirto. 


Undecinio  die  mensis  Augusti  1627. 

Tlie  quhilk  day,  Robert  Andersoune,  weifer,  is  fund  and  tryit,  be  probatioun 
of  famous  witnessis,  to  have  injurit  and  wrongit  James  Grahame,  his  present  deikin, 
within  the  Hie  Kirk,  upone  the  aucht  day  of  August,  instant,  saying  to  liim, 
dispytfullie,  that  lie  spack  untreuth  and  the  divill  rug  out  the  leycris  saull,  with 
monie  ma  injurious  wordis,  without  respect  or  regain!  of  his  office.  And  thairfoir 
the  maisteris  of  craft,  present,  all  in  ane  voice,  decernis  and  ordainis  the  said 
Robert  Andersoun,  personallie  [iresent,  to  pay  tuentie  nierkis  of  up.set  ad  pios  usus 
for  the  commoun  us  of  the  craft,  with  fourtie  schillinges  to  the  bailzies,  and  als  to 
ait  doun  upone  his  kneis  within  the  bodie  of  the  Hie  Kirk,  and  thair  ask  the  deikin 
forgivenes,  and  be  reconceallit  to  him  again. 


The  penult,  day  of  August  1628. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacon  and  maisteris  of  craft  being  convenit  in  the 
hospitall  for  taking  ordour  with  William  Ciithbert  for  abusing  of  the  deacon  and 
being  fund  that  he  had  sua  donne ;  thairfoir  the  said  deacon  and  maisteris  of  craft 
decernit  and  ordaiiit  that  nane  of  the  craft  gave  him  Avark  Avndir  the  jiane  of  ane 
upset  to  be  put  in  the  box  be  the  deacon  and  maisteris  of  craft ;  and  that  ay  and 
cuihill  he  satistie  the  deacon  and  craft. 

The  ofi'ences  become  less  flagrant  for  a  time.  One  wonders  why 
it  was  always  the  deacon  who  got  the  benefit,  but,  from  the  record 
immediately  following,  others,  unnamed,  were  sometimes  included.  They 
seem  also  to  have  sometimes  fallen  foul  of  each  other,  and  the  second 
record  below  gives  an  instance  where  two  are  bound  over  to  keep 


70 


DISCIPLINE. 


the  peace.  William  Pollok  evidentl}^  believed  that  a  Glasgow  weaver’s 
house  was  his  castle,  and  his  extract  runs  closely  in  force  of 
language  some  of  those  recorded  above : — 

Tlie  xiij  day  of  Nov'cinber  1630. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacon  and  mai.steris  of  craft  being  convenit  in  the 
hospitall  it  [is]  fund  be  them  tliat  Robert  Boik  had  .slanderit  his  [deacon]  and 
certain  honest  men  of  the  craft  and  tliairfoir  it  was  statiit  and  ordanit  be  thame 
that  the  said  Robert  sould  hauf  na  wark  quliill  he  satisfeit  the  deacon  for  the  said 
slandir;  as  lyk,  befoir  the  said  Robert  be  admittit  frieman  with  craft,  he  to  pay 
the  utermaist  as  any  lies  payit  of  befoir. 


The  7  day  of  August  16.31. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statiit  and  [ordanit]  be  the  deacon  and  maisteris  of  craft, 
that  if  it  sail  happin  John  Kirlie  to  slandir  Petir  Finnesoune  or  any  uther  of  the 
craft  be  his  schamefull  language,  or  the  said  Petir  to  slandir  tlie  said  Kirlie  or  any 
utheris  of  the  craft  and  being  convick,  to  pay  tuentie  jiund  to  the  well  of  the  craft 
or  be  beneissit  the  tonne.  Quhairwith,  the  saidis  persounes  being  present  was  content, 
and  commandit  me,  notary,  undirsubscryvand,  to  subscryve  for  thame,  layand  thair 
hand  to  the  pen. 

Mr  G.  STIRLING 
Quinto  Maij  1632  yeirs. 

The  quhilk  day,  William  Pollok,  weifer,  burges  of  Glasgow,  being  present,  and 
accuisit  be  the  deacon  befoir  the  craft  for  injuring  and  wranging  of  the  deacon, 
and  violentlie  putting  of  him  furthe  of  his  hous,  the  deacon  being  present  thair, 
with  sum  of  his  brethern,  for  taking  furthe  of  the  said  Thomas  his  lume,  certan 
work,  and  for  inputting  thairintill  ane  pair  plaids,  perteining  to  Thomas  Andersoun ; 
the  said  William  Pollok,  not  onlie  violentlie  output  the  said  deacon  and  theis 
liresent  with  him  furthe  of  the  said  hous  schoiring  to  strek  them,  hot  als  avowit 
and  utterit  thir  words,  that  in  despyte  of  the  deacon  and  all  the  craft,  he  sould 
not  work  the  foirsaids  plaids,  nor  that  na  work  sould  be  tane  furt  of  his  lumes  be 
the  deacon  nor  his  maisteris  in  despyt  of  thair  hartis.  Quhilk  being  all  verifeit  and 
cleirlie  provin  be  famous  witnessis  ressevit  sworne  and  admittit  in  presens  of  the 
said  William  befoir  the  said  craft,  the  present  maisteris  thairof  ordanes  the  said 
William  for  the  foirsaid  wrang  comittit  be  him  to  the  deacon  to  pay  ane  new  fyne 
and  upset  to  the  craft,  and  to  satisfie  the  baillzies  of  Glasgow  conforme  to  the 
ordour ;  and  the  said  William  Pollok  being  present  as  said  is  beconi  in  the  craftis 
w'ill,  quha  gave  furthe  thair  will  and  declaratioun  in  maner  foirsaid. 


The  deacon  and  his  court  seem  to  have  had  some  powers  of 


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imprison iiient,  which  surely  were  rarely  exercised,  as  this  is  the  only 
occasion  on  which  they  are  referred  to : — 

19  Augiisti  1644. 

Findis  Charles  Snyp  to  [Iiave]  dissobej’ed  and  wrangit  the  dekine  ami  tliairfoir 
ordains  liini  to  go  to  ward  and  thair  to  reinyane  xlviij  houris  or  langer  at  tlie 

dekins  wdll. 

There  is  a  lengthy  spell  of  orderly  conduct,  which  makes  the 
records  unintere.sting  reading,  and  it  is  evidently  felt  that  when  two 

cases  do  occur,  there  is  no  need  for  summary  procedure,  so  a  word 

of  caution  is  sufficient : — 

Sexto  Maij  1670. 

The  same  day,  Walter  Dobbie,  weaver,  is  heirby  become  actit  that  he  sail 

Carrie  himselfe  soberlie  and  discreitlie  towards  his  deacone  of  tred  present  and  to 

come,  and  sail  not  upbraid  them  ather  be  word  or  deid  under  the  paine  of  ane 

new  upsett  ami  to  be  farder  punished  at  the  will  of  the  deacon  and  maisteris  of 
craft. 

12  November  1670. 

The  same  day,  John  Jamisoune  elder,  and  John  Glen,  weaveris,  are  bothe  of 
them  heirby  become  actit  of  ther  awne  consentis  to  carrie  them  selfes  bothe  civeallie 
and  discreitlie  towards  otheris,  and  sail  not  tlyt,  backbyt  or  miscall  on  another  as 
they  have  done  heirtofoir,  and  that  in  no  tyme  comeing  they  sail  truble  or  mollest 
otheris  aither  be  word  or  deid  utherwayes  then  be  ordour  of  law  and  justice  and 

that  under  the  paine  of  twentie  punds  .Scotis  to  be  payit  in  be  ilk  them  to  the 

deacone  and  his  successouris  for  the  use  of  the  poore  he  this  act  subscrivit  befoir 
thir  witnessis  John  Maxwell  and  John  Findlay,  weaveris. 

(Signed)  JOHNE  JAMISOWNE 
(Signed)  PATRICIUS  CLARK,  notarius,  pro  Glen,  subscribo. 

The  last  recorded  case  is  mainly  of  interest  for  the  undetailed 
“punishment  of  his  persone  ”  referred  to.  We  are  left  to  imagine 
the  form  that  was  to  take : — 

At  Glasgow  the  twentie  twa  day  of  March  1672. 

The  quhilk  day,  compeired  Robert  Maxwell,  weaver,  burges  of  the  said  burgh, 
and  forswamikle  as  he  lies  bine  fund  giltie  heirtofoir  of  scandelizing  and  reproching 
of  his  deacones  name  and  utheris,  quhilk  fault  is  now  past  and  remittit  to  him  and 
forgivine  upon  his  promeis  of  amendiament  in  tyme  comeing.  Therfor  the  said 
Robert  Maxwell  heirby  inacts  and  obleissis  him  of  his  awne  confessioune  that  he 
sail  carray  himselfe  civellie  in  tyme  comeing  towards  his  present  deacone  and 


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niaisteris  of  the  said  weavers  tread,  and  sail  not  scandelize  reproche  or  miscall  them 
or  ther  successouris  in  office  deacones  and  niaisteris  thairof,  hot  behave  himselfe 
civillie  in  all  things  as  becometh,  and  that  under  the  paine  of  fyftie  pundis  money, 
by  and  attour  punishment  of  his  persone  at  the  will  of  the  baillies  for  the  tyme  be 
this  act  subscrivit  befoir  thir  witnessis  William  Crightoune,  ane  of  the  ordinar 
officeris  of  the  said  burgh  and  Patrick  Clark,  wrytter  thair  and  heirof. 

(Signed)  ROBERT  MAXWELL,— 

William  Crichtoun,  witnes ;  Patrick  Clark,  witnes. 

Whether  such  cases  occurred  in  the  hundred  years  or  so  following 
1672  we  have  no  records  to  show,  but  towards  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century  and  onwards  they  are  completely  absent. 


IX. 


MONEY  MATTERS. 

It  is  now  difficult  for  us  to  realise  the  primitiveness  of  account¬ 
ing  and  dealing  with  money  matters  over  three  hundred  years  ago. 
A  bank  was  started  in  England  in  Cromwell’s  time,  and  the  second 
in  the  kingdom  was  the  Bank  of  Scotland,  started  in  1695.  Education, 
to  a  degree  which  qualified  to  keep  accounts,  was  somewhat  excep¬ 
tional  ;  consequently  when  money  had  to  be  collected  from  members 
the  usual  voucher  was  the  fact  of  the  transaction  being  done  in 
presence  of  member.s,  and  likewise  the  only  security  of  its  actual 
deposit  was  the  same  publicity  and  a  box  locked  with  several  keys. 
These  old  boxes  remain,  and  an  illustration  is  given  of  the  boxes  used 
for  safe  keeping  of  the  Incorporation’s  funds  by  the  deacon  and  collector, 
until  the  day  of  banks.  This  explanation  makes  the  following  early 
entries  comprehensible : — 

Quarto  Novembris  1592. 

The  dekin  and  maisters  of  craft  and  remanent  brethren  thairof  heif  statut  and 
ordanit  that  none  of  thair  commoun  guidis  he  ressavit  be  the  dekin  except  tliat  tlie 
maisteris  of  craft  he  present  at  the  ressat  thairof,  and  that  tlie  saining  be  input 
in  thair  box,  to  be  furtlicumand  to  the  weal  of  thair  haill  craft. 

Quarto  Novembris  1592. 

Tlie  dekin,  maisteris,  and  haill  craft  for  bringing  of  thair  quarter  wages  to  ane 
gud  end  lies  statut  and  ordanit  that  thair  haill  quarter  wages  extending  to  foure  s. 
to  ilk  ane  of  thair  craft  be  brocht  in  ane  haill  sowme  at  the  election  of  thair 
dekin  and  befor  his  chesein  be  delyverit  to  the  dekin,  and  quhilk  of  the  craftismen 
lies  not  thair  quarter  wages  in  readines  than  salbe  poyndit  incontinent  thairefter 
for  payment  ilk  ane  of  thame  for  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Irregularities  in  payment  were  bound  to  occur,  and  one  means 
of  bringing  pressure  to  bear  on  defaulters  was  “  No  payment,  no 
vote  ” : — 

Decimo  sexto  Novembris  1608. 

The  same  day,  the  deikin,  maisteris  and  haill  craft  understanding  that  thair 
is  unthankfull  payment  maid  of  thair  commoun  guidis,  and  specially  thair  quarter 


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MONEY  MATTERS. 


waiges, — Thairfoir  tliai  have  all  in  ane  voice  statnt,  ordanit,  and  conelndit,  that  thair 
sail  na  frieman  in  tyme  cnming  have  voit  in  electioune  of  thair  deikin  and 
quarterniaisteris  nntill  sick  tynie  as  thai  have  conipleitlie  payit  to  the  auld  deikin 
thair  quarter  waigis,  unlawis,  and  upsetis  quhatsunievir  thai  salhe  put  into. 

The  irregularities  are,  however,  not  all  outside  the  deacon  and  his 
“  maisters,”  and  an  ordinance  is  made  that  the  deacon  is  to  make 
all  outlays  from  his  own  pocket,  during  the  whole  of  his  term  of 
office,  and  only  to  be  recouped  on  presenting  his  account  of  outlays 
on  demitting  office  : — 

Octavo  Augisti  anno  1610. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deikin,  maisteris  and  remanent  memberis  of  the  wobster- 
craft  Vjeing  convenit  haifing  weill  considerit  the  greit  hurt  and  los  that  lies  befallin 
thanie  be  the  decay  of  thair  commoun  guidis,  pairtlie  be  thair  deikinis  intromissioune 
thairAvith,  and  pairtlie  be  the  ressaveing  of  friemen,  prenteissis  and  servandis  for 
nieane  pryces  beyond  the  tennour  of  the  lettere  of  deikinheid,  sua  that  except 
reineid  be  provydit  thairto  thair  haill  commoun  guidis  will  decay.  Thairfoir,  and 
for  remeid  thairof,  the  deikin  maisteris  and  haill  craft  all  in  ane  voice  with  ane 
Avilling  mynd  and  consent,  have  statut,  ordanit,  and  concludit,  that  in  all  tymes 
cuming  thair  salbe  nather  frieman  prenteis  nor  servand  admitit,  ressaveit,  and  buikit, 
bot  at  quarter  courtis,  and  upone  sick  pryces  and  sowmes  as  is  appointit  and 
designit  in  thair  lettere  of  deikinheid  and  the  samin  sowmes  nawayes  to  be 
intrometit  with  he  thair  deikin,  conforme  to  the  auld  us,  bot  sail  be  immediatlie 
at  payment  be  put  in  the  box,  and  nane  sail  be  buikit  quhill  thair  upset,  prenteis, 
and  entres  silver  be  laid  doun  on  the  box,  and  na  feist  to  be  thairof;  and  that 
the  deikinis  in  all  tyme  cuming  sail  deburs  of  thair  awin  money  in  the  commoun 
chairges  and  effairis  of  the  craft  quhill  the  end  of  his  office,  and  sail  mell  with 
nane  of  the  commoun  guidis  bot  allanirly  the  quarter  comptis.  And  quhatevir  beis 
restand  awand  to  the  deikin  at  the  fut  of  his  compt  salbe  than  payit  to  him  at 
the  end  and  fut  of  his  compt,  and  quhill  payment  to  him  thairof,  he  sail  detein 
and  keip  in  his  possessioune  the  box,  ben  chartour,  and  uther  Avreitis  of  the  craft 
that  ar  givin  the  deikinis  in  keiping.  To  the  observing  of  the  quhilk  act  and 
statut  as  being  set  doun  to  the  weill  of  the  craft,  the  haill  memberis  of  craft 
bindis  and  obleissis  thame  and  to  stand  and  abyd  thairat  but  contradictioune,  undir 
the  pane  of  perjurie. 

There  are  no  accounts  extant  until  a  much  later  date,  but 
apparently  at  no  time  in  the  early  history  of  the  craft  was  there  any 
capital  fund.  The  Incorporation  lived  hand  to  mouth,  and  its  depen¬ 
dents  received  directly  in  help  whatever  was  collected.  There  are 
frequent  entries  showing  that  a  debt  had  been  incurred,  and  that 


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consequent  efforts  were  required  to  meet  it.  The  entry  immediately 
following  shows  that  money  matters  have  been  put  into  the  collector’s 
hands : — 

(23-3-1611) 

The  .same  day,  the  liaill  persounes  of  craft,  be  thir  presentis,  ar  becum  actit 
and  obleist,  ilk  ane  of  thame,  of  thair  awin  consentis,  to  contribnt  and  pay  xiij  s. 
4  d.  to  the  bo.\  for  releif  of  tliair  debt  of  ane  hunderethe  inerkis  money,  awand  to 
John  Clark,  dekin,  to  be  payit  compleitly  to  Johne  Pater.soune  younyer,  collectonr, 
appointit  befoir  the  first  day  of  Maij  nixtocome,  and  quha  evir  beis  unpayit  thairat 
sail  pay  xx  s.  but  contradictioune. 

W.  FLEMYNG  sst 
Ultimo  Decembris  1613. 

The  same  day,  payit  be  John  Clark  to  Georg  Schirilaw  four  pundis  for  the 
owtintownes  payment,  with  fourtie  scliillinges  spent  in  expenssis,  in  respect  quhairof, 
the  said  John  audit  to  be  exouorit. 

Septinio  Octobris  1615. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  haill  craft  have  condisceudit  of  thair  awin  consentis  to 
pay  amangst  thame,  conforme  to  thair  awin  offeris,  in  row,  xl  li.  for  releif  of  thair 
commoun  debt,  compleitlie,  befoir  Hallow  day  nixt,  and  quhaevir  beis  unpayit  npone 
the  second  day  of  November  nixt,  sail  pay  the  doubill  thairof  of  thair  awin  consentis. 

Decimo  quarto  Novembris  1615. 

The  quhilk  day,  in  presens  of  the  haill  maisteris,  Georg  Schirilaw  and  .John 
Clark  have  tane  npone  thame  the  payment  of  the  commoun  debtis,  awand  be  the 
craft  to  Thomas  Gray,  and  to  the  said  Jolin,  for  payment  quhairof,  the  maisteris 
grantis  and  assignis  to  thame  the  haill  stent  silvir  in  William  Flemingis  handis, 
and  that  is  to  come  in  with  Allane  Andirsoun  and  .Tohne  Muire  tliair  fynis  for 
thair  upset,  and  als  to  be  payit  in  payment  to  the  saiil  John  Clark  of  all  that  is 
awand  to  him  at  the  fut  of  his  compt.  Quhilk  thai  have  acceptit,  and  obleissis 
thame  presently  to  releif  and  disburdein  the  craft  of  tlie  tiftie  pundis  awand  to 
Thomas  Gray,  and  of  John  Clarkis  debt. 

,  rGEORGE  SCHIRILAW. — with  my  hand. 

Signed  CLARK.— with  my  hand. 

An  explanation  of  the  strong  feelings  shown  against  the  Deacon 
(referred  to  in  Chapter  VIII.)  may  be  found  in  such  entries  as  these : — • 

xxvii  Septembris  1616. 

The  same  day,  the  deikin  and  maisteris,  all  in  ane  voice,  but  variance,  in 
consideratioun  of  the  abuis  bygain  of  thair  commoun  guidis  spendit  be  thair  deikinis, 
with  tua  or  thrie  of  the  maisteris,  without  ane  commoun  consent,  lies,  thairfoir,  and 


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MONEY  MATTERS. 

for  remeid  thairof,  statut  and  fullie  concludit,  that  the  deikin,  lieireftir,  sail  nevir 
have  liberty  to  spend  anie  of  the  commoun  gnidis  exceiding  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  at  ane 
tyme,  without  the  niaist  pairt  of  the  maisteris  consent  thairto ;  and  give  he  do  in 
the  contrar,  sail  have  na  allowance  thairof  in  his  comptis. 

Quinto  Octobris  162o. 

Nota,  that  the  band  registrat  in  the  toun  court  buikis  of  fiftie  pundis  be  ane 
greit  number  of  the  craft,  is  fullie  satisfiet  and  payit  be  all  men  except  Georg 
Schirilaw. 

Quinto  August  1626. 

The  quhilk  day,  in  presens  of  William  Neilsoun,  deikinconveiner,  the  deikin, 
maisteris,  and  haill  bretherein  of  the  craft  for  the  maist.  It  is  concludit,  statut 
and  ordainit  with  consent  and  advys  of  the  haill  craft  present,  that  it  sail  nevir  be 
leasum  to  the  deikin  and  maisteris  of  craft  to  spend  in  drinking  onie  of  the  commoun 
guidis  of  the  craft,  les  or  mair,  for  na  pretence  quhatsumevir,  nather  sail  it  be 
leasum  to  the  deikin  or  maisteris,  be  privat  or  particular  consent,  to  spend  or  deburs 
anie  of  the  commoun  guidis,  in  anie  cans  or  occasioun  that  sail  occur  heireftir, 
albeit  the  bussines  be  nevir  so  urgent,  without  the  same  be  done  be  advys  of  the 
deikin  and  maist  pairt  of  the  maisteris  for  the  tyme,  and  if  thai  do  in  the  contrar, 
the  deikin  and  maisteris  doaris,  and  consentars,  sail  pay  ten  merkis  toties  quoties  to 
the  box,  and  sicklyk  sail  los  thair  office,  and  nevir  beir  office,  ather  deikin  or  maister 
of  craft  heireftir ;  nather  sail  the  sowmes  debursit  without  full  consent  be  admitit 
or  allowit  in  the  deikinis  compt  undir  the  pain  of  perjurie  to  the  allowers  thairof. 

W  FLEMING,  St. 

An  outside  control  of  the  deacon  and  his  spendings  had  become 
necessary,  and  a  practice  is  enacted  which  continued  for  at  least  a 
hundred  years,  the  books  between  1670  and  1740  being  extant,  and 
bearing  that  the  audit  of  the  collector’s  accounts  took  place  each 
November,  after  the  election  of  the  new  deacon,  and  always  in  the 
presence  of  the  deacon-convener  and  a  bailie : — 

XV  Decembris  1630. 

The  said  day,  the  deacone  and  maisteris  of  craft  be  advys  of  the  deacon  convenar, 
deanes,  and  remanent  bretherin  of  his  counsill  convenit  in  the  craftis  hospitall  lies, 
all  in  ane  voce  concludit  and  ordanit  that,  in  the  act  of  the  admissioun  of  ilk  frieman 
and  prenteis,  thair  ordinar  fynis  sail  be  put  in  the  act  of  thair  admissioun  according 
to  the  guid  auld  and  lawdable  custoum  to  the  effect  the  deacone  may  be  chargit  with 
his  intromissoun  contre  to  the  buik,  and  that  they  mak  their  compt  yeirlie  heireftir 
befoir  thair  deacon  convenare  deaconis  and  bretherine  of  thair  counsill ;  and  farder 
that  they  giv  doun  na  fyns  nor  na  pairt  thairof  to  any  persone  admitit  friemen  or 
prenteis  without  consent  of  the  deacone  and  haill  bretherine  of  craft ;  and  the  con- 
travenar  heirof  the  present  deacone  and  contravenar  sail  pay  to  the  hall  deacons 
tuentie  pnndis  money. 


MONEY  MATTERS. 


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It  was  a  common  practice  to  lend  the  funds  to  members,  and 
the  following  entry  shows  a  transaction  and  the  security  given : — 

I  Robert  Haistie,  weifer,  burges  of  Glasgow,  grant  me  to  hawe  borrowit  and 
actiiallie  ressevit  fra  Johnne  Falconner  younger,  present  deacon  of  the  weiferis  of  Glas¬ 
gow,  as  ane  pairt  of  the  Tiioney  and  guidis  belonging  to  the  said  craft,  the  sownie 
of  twelf  punds  money  of  Scotland  with  full  e.xoneratioun  thairof  for  evir.  Sek  sowme 
of  twelf  punds  money  foirsaid  I  bind  and  obleis  me  my  airis,  executouris  and  intro- 
mettouris  with  my  guds  ami  geir  quhatsomevir,  to  content  and  pay  to  the  said  John 
Falconner  and  to  his  successouris  in  ottice,  deacones  of  the  said  craft  betwix  and  the 
last  day  of  August  ni.xtocom,  with  fowre  pund  of  penaltie  in  caice  of  failzie ;  and 
for  his  better  securitie  I  hawe  presentlie  impignorat  to  him  ane  muskat  with  baudi- 
leiris  and  rest  to  be  keipit  be  him  thairfor  quhill  the  saiil  tlay,  so  that  it  be  I 
failzie  in  payment  of  the  foirsaid  sowme  betwix  and  the  said  day  I  remese  and  dis¬ 
charge  the  said  muskat  bandileiris  and  rest  to  the  said  John  and  his  foirsaids,  and 
sail  nevir  dame  or  pretend  ony  ryght  or  kyndnes  thairof  in  ony  time  heireftir ; 
consenting  thir  presentis  he  registrat  in  the  buikis  of  counsel  and  sessioun  or  com- 
misseris  buikis  of  Glasgow,  or  burght  court  buikis  thairof  that  executoriallis  of 
horning  poynding  and  warding  may  pas  heirupoun  on  ane  simple  charge  of  sex  dayis, 

and  constitutis. - Procuiatouris  conjunctlie  and  severallie  wrettin  be  I’atrik  Baird, 

notar  in  Glasgow  subscrivit  be  him  for  me  and  at  my  command  hecaus  I  can  not 
wrett  at  Glasgow  the  audit  day  of  July  j”'  vp  threttie  ane  yeiris  befoir  thir  wit- 
nessis  William  Falconner,  weifer  hurges  thair  and  James  Winzet,  weifer  thair, 

Ita  est  Patricus  Baiid,  notarius  jniblicus  in  premissis  de  mandato  dicti  Roherti 
Haistie  scribere  nescien. 

JAMES  WINZET,  witnes.  WILLIAME  FACUNER,  witnes. 

Stripped  of  its  wordiness,  the  following  entry  looks  uncommonly 
like  implying  that  the  deacon’s  hand  was  in  the  box  for  other  than 

the  purposes  of  the  Incorporation ; — 

Decimo  May  1634. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacon,  maisteris  of  craft,  and  haill  bodie  thairof,  being 

all  conveinit  togidder,  and  having  weill  considerit  the  great  lose  of  thair  guids  the 

tynie  of  the  deacones  electioun,  and  pairtlie  utherwayes  be  the  deacones  intromit 

and  uplifting  of  thair  guids  in  tyme  hypast  and  evill  governament  of  the  samen 

throw  not  boxing  of  thair  moneyis,  have  all  in  ane  voce  appointit  aggriet  and 
ordanit,  that  it  sail  not  he  lawfull  nor  allowabill  he  the  craft  at  na  tyme  heireftir 
to  ony  deacon  quhatsumevir  that  sail  happin  to  be  electit  and  chosin  the  tyme  of 
thair  election,  viz.  the  verie  day  thairof  quhatsumevir  he  sail  be  happin  to  bestow 
or  wair  to  get  ony  allowance  thairof  of  the  craft,  hot  the  samen  sail  be  upon  his 

awin  chairges  and  expenssis ;  als  it  is  statut,  aggriet  and  ordaint  be  the  deacon, 
maisteris  of  craft  and  memberis  thairof,  that  the  haill  guidis  and  geir  belonging  to 


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the  craft  will,  and  in  all  tyme  cuining  sail  nevir  be  upliftit  nor  intromettit  with  be 
ony  deacon  heireftir,  nor  be  na  uther  persoune  nor  persounes,  bot  the  samen  sail  be 
imboxit  for  the  weill  of  the  craft,  thair  to  remaine  quhill  the  sainen  be  lende  furtlie  ; 
and  the  deacones  liaill  depursinenti.s  that  it  sail  happin  him  to  be  depurs  during 
the  haill  tyme  of  thair  office,  sail  be  payit  and  ramburst  to  them  the  tyme  quhen 
thair  office  expyres,  conforme  to  thair  compt  to  be  givin  in  to  thair  successour  and 
maisteris  of  craft.  And  quhasoever  of  the  said  craft,  at  ony  time  heireftir,  sail  consent 
and  vote  in  the  coiitrar  of  this  act  above  specifeit,  sail  nevir  beir  office  in  the  said 
calling  tliairof  bot  haldin  and  reput  as  perjurit  and  infamous  people,  not  worthie  to 
be  respectit  as  memberis  of  the  said  craft. 

Pressure  is  evidently  required  to  bring  in  the  quarterly  payments, 
and  power  to  apply  that  pressure  is  renewed  to  the  deacon : — 

6  November  1643, 

Tlie  said  day,  the  dekine  and  maisteris  of  craft,  all  in  ane  voyce,  ratefis  and 
approvis  the  haill  former  actis  sett  doun  of  befoir  anent  thes  who  absentis  themselfs 
fra  burriellis,  and  quha  cums  not  to  pay  thair  quarter  comptis  being  warnit  in  the 
haill  ordinancis  thairof ;  and  ordains  the  dekine  to  exact  the  wnlaws  af  ilk  persone 
contraveineris  of  the  saidis  actis  without  any  mitigatioun,  and  speciallie  af  all  thes 
who  ar  now  absent  fra  thair  quarter  comptis  in  regaird  thair  number  ar  so  grait. 

The  beginning  of  what  has  been  a  large  source  of  revenue  to 
the  Trades’  House  and  the  crafts  is  to  be  traced  in  the  following 
minutes.  This  matter  is  more  fully  gone  into  in  Chapter  XIV.; — 

Decimo  quinto  Aprilis  1650. 

Thair  is  delyverit  to  the  dekine  ane  hundrethe  pundis  viz  ane  hundrethe  markis, 
as  ane  pairt  of  the  money  that  was  awin  to  Mr.  Johne  Herbertsone,  and  1.  markis 
out  of  the  box  to  help  to  mak  up  the  money  quhilk  the  craft  is  to  pay  to  the 
Gorbal!  money. 

The  said  day,  the  bandis  following  ar  takin  out  of  the  box  and  gevin  to  the 
dekine  and  collectour  to  tak  u[>  the  money,  or  to  put  to  executioun,  viz.,  viz.,  William 
Algees,  of  200  markis,  Janies  Sympsone  of  100  mark,  Archibald  Leis  of  100  markis, 
Johne  Falconer  50  markis,  Robert  Merschell  100  markis. 

24  Julij  1650. 

"The  said  day,  Robert  Merschell  and  Johne  Falconeris  bandis  ar  agane  put  in 
the  box,  anil  the  400  markis  contenit  in  the  wther  three  band  above  writtin,  with 
the  hundrethe  pundis  that  was  in  the  dekines  hand,  conforme  to  the  former  memo¬ 
randum,  and  fyftie  markis  now  delyverit  to  the  dekin  out  of  the  box,  with  100  markis 
he  receavit  fra  Robert  Hall,,  compleitis  to  him  the  sevine  hundrethe  markis  was  payit 
out  be  the  dekine  to  the  dekine  convener  in  pairt  payment  of  the  1000  markis  promiest 
be  the  craft  for  performing  the  Gorballis  bargane. 


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There  are  frequent  records  of  entry  monies  received  under  the 
agreement  with  Gorbals  and  Bridgend  weavers  referred  to  in  Chapter  XI. 
One  is  given  here : — 

3  November  1651. 

The  said  day,  Patrik  Bryce  producit  twentie  markis  quhilk  he  had  fra  the 
Gorball  men,  quhilk  is  put  in  the  box. 

The  Trades’  House  makes  an  annual  distribution  of  the  respective 
shares  from  Gorbal  lands,  the  purchase  of  which  is  referred  to  above  : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall. 

The  tuentie  fourt  day  of  August  1663  yeiris 

Tlie  same  day,  tlier  is  putt  in  the  box  tuenty  fyve  pundis  monej"  reeeavit  of 
tlie  Gorball  rent  for  the  crope  and  yeir  of  God  1662. 

From  about  1670  there  are  extant  complete  accounts  of  all 
intromissions,  and  one  of  these  is  reproduced  here  ;  the  account  is  in 
Scots  money — r.e.,  a  shilling  Scots  =  a  penny  sterling : — 

At  the  Craftis  hospitall  of  the  Burgh  of  Glasgow  wpon 
the  elevinth  day  of  October  j"'  vj<=  and  seavintie 
twa  yearis  being  convined  Patrick  Bryce  present 
deacon-conviner  and  Simone  Tennent  ane  of  the 
brethrine  of  his  counsell,  John  Patersone,  present 
deacone  of  weaveris  with  his  quarterniaisteris  and 
bodie  of  the  calling  who  for  the  most  pairt  war 
present  for  the  aflfgiving  of  John  Cochrane,  present 
collector  to  the  said  calling  his  compt  of  his 
intromissioune  with  the  craftis  guids  and  geir  the 
year  preceiding  and  his  debursmentis  thairof  as 


fallowis  in  charge  and  discharge. 

CHARGE. 

In  the  first  the  compter  charges  himselfe  with  the  sowme 
fallowing  reeeavit  fra  John  Maxwell  lait  collector  at  the 

giving  off  of  his  compt. — . 13  13  0 

Item  reeeavit  at  Hallow  court  of  quarter  comptis —  -  -  -620 
Item  reeeavit  att  Hallow  court  for  booking  of  Jonet  Stevins  man  0  13  4 
Item  reeeavit  of  quarter  com2)tis  at  the  deacones  ellectione 

quhilk  was  in  the  box. — . 8  14  0 

Item  reeeavit  of  yeard  maill  fra  John  M‘Kie  -  -  -  -  26  13  4 

Item  receaved  fra  John  Woodrow,  maltman  for  ane  yearis 

annuelrent  of  200  markis. — . 8  0  0 


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Item  receavit  fra  Patrick  Laii"  tlie  Mertimes  and  Wliitsonday 

termes  maill  of  his  hous.—  -  -  -  -  -  ■  -  20  0  5 

Item  for  the  said  twa  termes  maill  fra  John  Findlay  for  his 

hous —  -  -  - . 16  0  0 

Item  fra  John  Walker,  cuik  for  the  maills  of  his  hous  the 

said  twa  termes. — . 900 

Item  fra  John  M‘Nair  for  his  friedome  fyne. —  -  -  -  -500 

Item  fra  John  Young  for  his  Mertimes  and  Wliitsonday  maills 

of  his  hous. — .  20  0  0 

Item  fra  .John  Lang  for  his  ^lertimes  maill . 10  0  0 

Item  fra  Jonet  Gibsone  for  her  Mertimes  and  Wliitsonday  maill. —  8  0  0 

Item  fra  William  Reid  of  freidome  fyne  -  -  -  -  -500 

Item  for  booking  of  Janies  Gallis  man  -  -  -  -  -  -400 

Item  for  William  Snyps  fridome  fyne . 5  0  0 

Item  for  hooking  of  Patrick  M'Morrie . 2  0  0 

Item  for  hooking  of  Robert  Patersones  man  -  -  -  -  -  2  0  0 

Item  for  hooking  of  .James  Alexanderis  man  -  -  -  -200 

Item  for  hooking  of  Robert  Flaikfeildis  men  -  -  ■  -  4  15  4 

Item  fra  Allane  Marchell  for  a  yearis  maill  -  -  -  10  l.J  4 

Item  for  Mulliam  M'atsoue  for  his  freidome  fyne  -  -  -  5  0  0 

Item  for  John  Jauifrayes  fridom  fyne . 5  0  0 

Item  fra  Janies  Foyer  for  his  fridom  fyne . 5  0  0 

Item  from  David  Hoge  -  -  -  - . 500 

Item  for  hooking  of  John  M'Murries  man  -  -  -  -  -200 

Item  for  John  Flaikfeilds  man . 2  0  0 

Item  of  quarter  comptis  at  Laiuhes  court . 3  0  0 

RECEAVED  AT  BRIDGEND. 

In  the  first  of  quarter  comptis  at  Hallow  court  -  -  -  -  6  0  0 

Item  at  Candelmes  court . 12  0  0 

Item  at  the  same  court  of  fridome  fyne  fra  Alexr.  Hamiltone-  3  0  0 

Item  of  friedome  fyne  fra  John  Young . 15  0  0 

Item  of  friedome  fyne  fra  .John  Andersone . 2  13  4 

Item  of  fridome  fyne  fra  Patrick  MTllew  in  Gorhellis  -  -  12  0  0 

Item  fra  John  Stapert  of  fridome  fyne . 15  0  0 

Item  for  quarter  comptis  at  Beltane . 7  0  0 

Item  fra  William  Milleris  guidsone  in  Gorhellis  ■  -  -  -  3  10  0 

Item  fra  Andrew  Hamiltone  of  quarter  comptis  .  -  -  -  10  0 

Item  of  quarter  comptis  at  Lanihes  court . 8  0  0 

Item  of  quarter  comptis  at  the  iinishing  of  the  old  roll  -  -  4  13  4 

MORTCLOATHES. 

Item  receavit  for  the  thrie  mortecloathes  -  -  ^  -  -  53  3  8 


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FALLOWIS  THE  DISCHARGE. 

In  tlie  first  clel)ur.st  to  Robert  Anderson  tlie  deacon  convineris 

officer. — . 

Item  for  beiring  donne  tbe  inortcloth  kist  to  the  collectouris  kist. — 
Item  to  John  Muires  man  ami  to  the  foolk  in  the  liospitall. — • 
Item  for  carring  np  <a  letlier  to  the  treads  land  and  a  di.strest 

strainger. — . 

Item  to  the  dark  for  his  fiall . 

Item  to  helpe  to  hnnie  Jolin  Huiris  man  .  -  -  .  - 

Item  to  a  distrest  brother  of  tread. — . 

Item  for  dressing  of  the  inortcloth  and  to  a  poor  hrotlier  of  tread. 
Item  of  charge.s  in  intaking  of  ane  frieman  in  Gorbellis  - 
Item  to  thrie  distrest  straingeris  ....... 

Item  for  aggreing  to  dress  ane  lumheid  of  the  treads 
Item  to  the  deacon  convineris  lions  tlie  four  several  1  termes. —  1 

Item  for  carieing  of  twa  stones  to  the  treads  land  to  he 
threshellis.  ------------ 

Item  to  Robert  Smyth  for  layeing  of  thrie  threshwellis 

Item  to  Patrick  Lang  for  ten  daillis . 

Item  of  charges  in  the  clarkis  at  the  aggreing  with  a  frieman 

in  Gorbellis . 

Item  for  dressing  of  John  Findl.ayes  glass  wdndow  and  Robert 
Smith  for  dressing  of  the  yeard  yett  and  stone  and  lynne 

thairto. — . 

Item  for  mending  the  treads  purs  in  the  box  .  .  -  - 

Item  to  James  Mnir  a  poore  member  for  supplie 
Item  to  John  Bartonne  for  laying  of  the  cassay.— 

Item  to  .John  Trnmble  for  stones  thairto. — . 

Item  to  William  Crigh tonne,  officer. — . 

Item  to  John  Bartonne  for  laying  a  strand  at  the  lions  end. — 
Item  for  carieing  of  certane  irone  to  the  treads  land  quhilk 
was  in  David  Pitcairnes 

Item  of  supplie  to  Dougall  M‘Andiow  a  poore  brother —  - 

Item  of  supplie  to  Robert  Dalrnmples  relict  being  a  frieman. — 
Item  to  the  convineris  officer  att  the  receaving  of  the  act  anent 
the  booking  of  prenteissis. — 

Item  for  a  brood  to  Robert  Douglas  lions  and  at  the  intaking 

a  frieman  in  Bridgend. —  - . 

Item  for  supplie  to  .John  Tods  wyfe. — . 

Item  to  ane  distrest  brother  of  tread. — . 

Item  to  James  Craufuird,  officer  to  the  calling. — 

Item  for  mending  of  a  band  to  John  Findlayes  chamber  doore 
and  for  naillis  to  mend  the  treads  dyks. —  -  -  .  - 


1  16  0 

4  0 
18  0 

6  0 
8  0  0 

1  16  0 

3  0  0 

l.'i  0 
1-2  0 

1  10  0 

2  0 
5  0  0 

0  8  0 

19  0 

4  0  0 

10  0 


2  2  0 

3  0 
18  0 

8  1  6 
9  9  4 
1  16  0 
13  4 

4  0 

5  18  0 
1  4  0 

12  0 

7  0 
12  0 

1  4  0 
1  16  0 

8  0 


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82  MONEY  MATTERS. 

Item  to  pay  Robert  Dalrumples  relictis  mortchist  -  -  -280 

Item  of  charges  in  the  baillies  hoiis  aiienb  William  Milleris  man  1  16  0 

Item  of  charges  at  a  students  burriell  in  the  Colledge  -  -  10  0 

Item  at  ane  uther  occasioune  in  the  deacon  convineris  hous  of 

charges. —  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -140 

Item  for  receaving  of  John  Youngs  fridome  fyne  in  Gorbellis. —  4  0 

Item  to  John  Rae  for  a  book  to  the  tread.  —  -  -  -  -  3  12  0 

Item  of  supplie  to  William  Bobbies  relict. —  -  -  -  -  1  4  0 

Item  to  helpe  to  burrie  John  Allansones  bairne. — ■  -  -  -  18  0 

Item  of  supplie  to  Allane  Andersones  wyfe. —  .  .  -  .  18  0 

Item  to  John  Paullis  wyfe  for  supplie. — . 12  0 

Item  of  charges  at  the  receaving  of  James  Andersone.s  entrie 

frieman  in  Gorbellis. —  ........  60 

Item  to  Androw  Zeimock,  thicker  for  mending  the  hollis  in 

Bahvastie  land. -  68 

Item  for  thrie  stonks  of  bear  strae  thairto. —  .  .  .  .  14  0 

Item  to  James  Craufuird,  officer  to  the  tread  for  serving  the 

thicker. — . 3  4 

Item  for  ther  morning  drink  and  four  houris. —  ...  -  20 

Item  to  Gilbert  Hendersonne  Ji  poor  man  of  the  tread. —  -  •  12  0 

Item  at  receaving  of  Patrick  MTlewis  fridome  fyne  in  Gorbellis. —  6  0 

Item  in  the  Clarkis  at  ane  occasione  with  the  deacone  and 

maisteris. — . 6  0 

Item  to  a  distrest  brother. — . 3  0  0 

Item  to  a  distrest  strainger  that  was  robed  in  Ireland. —  -  -  18  0 

Item  in  the  deacon  convineris  hous  anent  Jonet  Stevinis  dornick 

web. — . - . 300 

Item  at  the  receaving  of  William  Stapertis  friedome  fyne  in 

Gorbellis.  — . 60 

Item  to  a  poor  woman  quhich  come  from  the  countrie. —  -  -  8  0 

Item  to  Ale.xander  Gilcreist,  messenger  for  grund  anwell  of 

Balwastie. — . 584 

Item  to  Robert  Kirklands  wyfe  of  supplie. —  ....  12  0 

Item  to  Robert  Watsone  quhen  his  wyfe  was  gripped  of  the 

gravel!.— . -  -  -  -  1  16  0 

Item  to  Robert  Kirklands  wyfe  Avhen  she  was  lying  on  death-bed.  —  18  0 

Item  to  ane  poore  wooman  at  the  deacon  convineris  directioune.—  12  0 

Item  at  a  meiting  in  the  clarkis  with  the  deacone  and  maisteris. —  8  0 

Item  at  the  laird  of  Balvies  burriell.— . 6  0 

Item  for  Robert  Kirklands  wyfes  deid-kist . 2  8  0 

Item  for  aquanting  the  baillie  anent  Jonet  Stevines  web  and 

paying  the  officer  thairaneut :  — . 14  0 

Item  at  sighting  of  plyds  be  the  deacone  and  maisteris. —  -  8  0 

Item  of  procuratour  fie  to  Robert  Fynisone  anent  the  dornick  web. —  1  10  0 


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Item  for  ryding  of  the  laird  of  Pollokis  sones  burriell  -  -360 

Item  for  3  stones  for  tlirasliwallis. — . 2  0  0 

Item  for  tlie  bookit  poore  of  the  tread  at  Hallow  court.—  -  12  0  0 

Item  for  the  bookit  poore  att  Candlmes  court.  —  -  -  -  12  0  0 

Item  for  the  bookit  poore  at  Beltane  court. —  -  -  -  -  13  4  0 

Item  to  John  Young  for  casting  the  stank  and  stobing  the  treds 

dyck.— . 16  0 

Item  to  a  poor  man  at  ordor  of  the  deacone  and  deacon  conviner. —  18  0 

Item  to  James  Craufurd,  tlie  treads  officer  for  a  pair  of  sboone 

at  Lambes  court. —  -  -  - . 1  10  0 

Item  to  a  distrest  brother  of  tread . 3  0  0 

Item  to  Walter  Stewart  for  a  yearis  annuelrent  of  400  merkis.  —  16  0  0 

Item  at  LaTiibes  court  to  the  bookit  poore  of  the  tread.—  -  12  12  0 

Item  to  David  Pitcainie  for  the  annuelrent  of  2000  merkis  for 

a  year.  — .  80  0  0 

Item  to  John  Androwis  .=one  for  siirkis  cloatb  to  be  cloathes 

and  buttons  tbairto. — . 2190 

Item  to  a  north  cuntrie  man  that  the  Hieland  doctor  cuttit  of 

tlie  gravell. — . 1  10  0 

Item  to  Robert  Smallie,  officer  at  the  ellectione  of  the  deacone 

for  bis  attendance. — . -  12  0 

Item  to  William  Crigbtoune,  officer  for  bis  attendance  the  said 

tyme . 6  0 

Item  of  hors  bayer  to  John  Flakfeild  ipiben  be  went  to  Raplocb.  10  0 

Item  to  Robert  Falkoneris  wyfe  at  the  comeing  in  of  tlie 

comissiouner. — . 15  0 

Item  to  James  Craufuird,  officer  that  was  restaml  of  bis  ball. —  2  16  0 

Item  for  making  of  John  Androwis  sones  cloathes  ...  10  0 

Item  in  the  clarkis  with  the  deacon  and  maisteris  -  -  -  12  0 


Qubilk  compt  above  wryttin  being  partieiilarlie  read  both  charge  and  discharge 
laid  and  calculated  the  forsaid  charge  was  fund  to  extend  to  the  sowme  of  tbrie 
bundretb  fyftie  sex  punds  augbtine  shilling  twa  pennies  Scotis  money,  and  his  dis¬ 
charge  and  debursmentis  to  the  sowme  of  twa  bundretb  aughtie  ane  punds  fourtine 
shilling  sex  pennies  money  cpihilk  being  calculated  and  compaired  ther  was  fund 
restand  in  the  hands  of  the  said  John  Cochrane  collectour  the  sowme  of  tbrie  scoir 
fyftine  punds  thrie  shilling  sex  pennies  Scotis  money  fpiliilk  he  instantlie  payit  in  to 
John  Ritchie,  present  collectour  and  he  to  be  chargit  therfoir.  Qubilk  compt  befoir 
wryttin  being  read  and  allowed,  the  said  treail  deacone,  maisteris  and  comrnunitie 
heirby  exoneris  and  discharges  the  said  John  Cochrane  his  aires  and  executouris  of 
his  haill  intromissioune  with  the  said  treads  geir  as  collectour  the  year  above  wryttin 
be  thir  presentis  for  now  and  ever. 


(Signed)  PATRICK  CL.YRK. 


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MONEY  MATTEES. 


There  was  still  difficulty  in  guiding  a  proper  expenditure  on  the 
part  of  the  deacon  and  collector,  and  there  had  to  be  a  re-enactment  of 
controlling  arrangements  which  have  already  been  recorded : — 

At  the  crafts  hospitall  of  tlie  burgh  of  Glasgow  the 
elevinth  day  of  October,  1672  yearis. 

Tlie  quhilk  day,  being  conviiied  Patrick  Bryce,  present  deacon  conviner,  Simone 
Teunent,  ane  of  his  hretlirine  of  counsel),  John  Patersone,  present  deacone  of  tlie 
weaveris,  his  ([uarterniaisteris,  and  most  pairt  of  the  hretlirine  of  the  said  weaver 
craft— In  farder  corroboratioune  of  ane  former  act  made  anent  the  collectouris 
intromissioune  with  the  bail!  geir  belonging  to  the  tread,  to  witt : — in  u[)lyfting  and 
receaveing  the  samyne,  and  debursiug  thairof ;  it  is  againe  statuted  and  ordained, 
that  in  all  tyme  comeing,  the  collectour  of  the  said  tread,  present  and  to  come, 
intromett  with  and  receave  the  bail!  commoune  goods  and  causwallities  belonging  to 
the  said  calling,  and  to  dehurs  the  samyne  accordinglie  as  he  sail  he  ordoured ;  as 
also  that  the  collectour  nor  deacone  distrihuit  to  no  poor  iu  the  calling  for  supplie 
above  aughtine  shilling  Scotis,  and  that  the  samyne  sail  [he]  at  sight,  and  he  the 
consent  of  some  of  the  maisteris  ;  as  also  that  ther  be  none  of  the  treads  geir  spent 
at  any  meitting  in  tyme  comeing  hot  out  of  thair  awne  proper  money,  except  at 
ane  extraordinar  occasioune  with  certitlcatioune  the  samyne  sail  not  he  allowit,  an<l 
the  contraviner  to  he  punished  farder  at  the  optioune  of  the  deacon  conviner  and 
his  successeris. 

(Signed)  PATRICK  CLARK. 

In  Chapter  V.  a  reference  has  been  made  to  a  movement  on  the 
part  of  tlie  ten  trades  which  had  smaller  representation  in  the  Trades’ 
House  for  equality  with  the  four  which  had  larger  representation. 
Funds  were  required  for  this  purpose,  and  provision  to  raise  the 
needful  is  made  in  the  following  minute : — 

At  Glasgow  the  twentie  day  of  Maij  1676. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacone,  maisteris,  and  most  of  the  tread  being  convined, 
the  said  haill  tread,  be  plurallitie  of  votis,  they  appoynted  the  deacone  and  maisteris 
to  borrow  such  sowmes  as  sail  he  fund  neidfull  for  purchasing  ane  inleargment  of 
ther  liberties,  conforme  to  the  votis  marked  in  the  treads  rowllis. 

It  is  difficult  to  trace  the  beginning  of  accumulation  of  a  capital 
stock.  In  the  earlier  days,  that  took  the  form  of  investment  in  land 
and  house  property,  which  is  dealt  with  in  Chapter  XIV.  There  is 
one  book  extant  recording  that  in  1743  the  Incorporation  had  a 
capital  of  £1479  sterling,  which  stock  had  in  1780  increased  to  £1908 


MONEY  MATTERS. 


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sterling.  The  large  increase  of  funds,  which  gives  the  yearly  income 
now  available  for  the  relief  of  poorer  members,  has  taken  place  in 
the  latter  part  of  last  century,  and  a  tabulated  statement  showing 
their  growth  will  be  found  in  Appendix  III. 

A  frequent  preliminary  to  the  docquet  on  accounts  is  the  phrase, 
“  Salve  justo  calculo,”  presumably  an  earlier  form  of  the  E.  &  O.  E. 
(errors  and  omissions  excepted),  which  itself  lias  now  been  dispensed 
Avith. 

The  four  terms  appear  in  the  books  of  the  seventeenth  century  as 
Candlemas,  Beltan  (for  Whitsunda}').  Lambmass,  and  Hallowday  (for 
Martinmas),  and  in  the  earlier  part  of  the  century  rents  were  paid  at 
Candlemas  (February),  and  Lambmass  (August),  not  as  at  present  in 
May  and  November. 

Some  interesting  items  appear  from  time  to  time,  such  as : — 

About  1676  items  of  outlay  in  attendance  at  “  Leadie  Montrose 
buriell  ”  and  also  at  “  Leadie  Eglintonne’s  buriell  ”• — “  To  a  poore  man 
that  had  his  hous  burnt  in  Ireland  ” — ■“  To  ane  gentlewoman  that 
was  robed  by  the  way.”  In  1695  there  appears  “deburst  of  expensiss 
anent  the  trouble  with  the  souldioures.” 

In  1717. — Item  to  3  horse  hyres  and  defenses  at  convoying  Ins  grace  the  Duke 
of  Montrose. 

Item  to  expense  of  pursuing  3  Gorhals  masters  for  ilisohedience  £5  Scots. 

Item  to  morning  drink  four  liours. 

1718. — Item  to  James  Dawson,  a  man  that  was  broke  at  tlie  Sheriff  Muir. 

Item  to  John  Camphell,  an  broken  seaman. 

Item  to  another  who  was  slave  with  the  Turks. 

Towards  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century  there  are  entries  of 
borrowing  from  the  Antiquity  Society  and  the  St.  Mungo  Society. 


X. 


LEGISLATION  AND  LITIGATION. 

Among  the  charters  and  deeds,  several  of  which  are  reproduced 
in  this  volume,  there  have  been  preserved  a  series  of  documents 
bearing  on  a  restriction  upon  the  export  of  linen  yarn.  This  question 
has  been  mixed  up  with  limitations  as  to  the  breadth  of  certain  linen 
goods.  The  exceptions  to  these  limitations  were  within  the  power  of  an 
individual  and  to  be  procured  by  a  payment  to  him.  The  series  of 

papers  is  incomplete,  as  the  decision  of  the  case  is  not  recorded,  but 
the  restriction  was  removed,  and  there  is  no  record  that  the  damages 
claimed  were  ever  paid.  The  main  interest  for  us  is,  that  in  both 

cases  it  was  found  that  interference  by  legislation  was  harmful  to  the 
trade.  As  some  of  these  papers  have  not  hitherto  been  in  print, 

they  are  given  here  in  full : — - 

Copy  Act  of  Ppjvy  Council,  discharging  the  exportation 
of  linen  yarn,  dated  13  January  1603. 

At  Halyrind  House  the  threttene  day  of  Januair,  the  yeir  of  God  j"’  vj‘=  and 
thrie  yeiris : — Anent  the  supplicatioun  presentit  and  gevin  in  before  the  Kingis 

Majestie  and  lordis  of  secrite  counsile  he  the  wobstiris,  weavaris,  and  claitliinakeris 
within  this  realme  ;  Makand  mentioun  that  quhair  albeit  his  Majestie,  for  the  bettir 
setting  fordwart  of  that  good  worke  and  interpryse  of  the  making  of  claith,  fustianis, 
steinmyngis,  grewgranis  and  all  uther  kynd  of  stnffis,  hes  expreslie  prohibit  and 
dischairgit  the  transporting  and  carying  forth  of  this  realme  of  woll  and  sic  uthir 
necessairis  as.  are  meete  for  furtherance  of  the  said  wark,  and  that  it  wes  his 
Majesteis  guid  niynd  and  meaning  the  tyine  foirsaid  to  mak  a  restreaint  of  all 
thingis  quhilkis  onywyse  micht  hindir  or  impeid  the  course  of  the  said  warke  and 
natnelie  of  the  lynning  yairne  quhich  is  so  necesserlie  to  be  had  and  requisite  to 
the  making  of  the  saidis  stuffis,  and  without  the  quhilk  the  same  can  not  tak 
effect ;  yit  the  merchandis,  passingeris,  and  trafficqueris,  alswele  his  Majesteis  awne 
subjectis,  as  straingearis  within  this  realme,  quha  evir  prefeiring  thair  awne  particulair 
gayne  to  his  Heynes  honnour  and  commoun  wele,  hes  begun  of  long  tyme  syne  to 
buy  and  transporte  grite  quantiteis  of  lynning  yairne  fra  divers  of  his  Majesteis 
leigeis,  and  daylie  caryis  the  same  beyond  sey,  be  the  quhilk  unlauchfull  treade 
thay  have  reasit  the  price  of  tlie  said  yarne  to  sic  ane  exhorbitant  and  feirfull 


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derth,  that  witliin  thir  tua  yeiris  the  same,  the  commoun  price  tliairof  is  quadrupillit 
to  the  grite  hinderance  of  the  said  wark  and  nttir  wrak  of  his  Majesteis  subjectis, 
laboraris,  and  workeris  of  the  saidis  stiilhs.  So  tliat  exce[)t  his  Majestie  according 
to  Iris  Heynes  guid  meaning  as  said  is  give  and  grant  ane  jiarticulair  act  of  restrcaint 
of  the  said  lynning  yairne,  tlie  same  werk  quhilk  lies  had  so  guid  a  progres  and 
liorischeing  within  this  realme  sallie  left  af  he  thame  throw  meir  povirtie  ami  the 
haill  estaite  of  the  commonnis  salbe  all  utterlie  wraikit.  Maist  humelie  desyreing 
thairfore  the  Kings  Majestie  and  the  saidis  lordis  to  pas  and  expeid  in  thair  favouris 
ane  act  of  restreaint  of  the  said  yairne  in  maner  and  to  the  effect  following,  lykis 
as  at  mair  lenth  is  contenit  in  the  said  supplicatioun.  Qiihilk  being  red,  hard,  and 
considderit  be  his  Majestie  and  the  saidis  lordis,  and  thay  thairwith  being  ryplie 
[advisit],  and  finding  the  desyre  [thair]  of  verie  reasounable  :  The  Kings  Majestie  and 
the  saidis  lordis  thairfore  have  statute  and  ordaiiit,  and  be  thir  jnesentis  statutes  and 
ordains  that  na  nianir  of  merchandis,  passingeris  nor  tr.itticqnaris  within  this  realme 
alswele  his  Majesteis  awne  subjectis  as  strangearis  qnhatsumevir  jnesome  nor  tak 
upoun  hand  at  ony  tyme  aftir  the  dait  heirof  to  cary  and  transjiorte  fnrth  of  this 
realme  ony  of  the  said  lynning  yairne  abovewrittiii  undir  qnhatsumevir  cullour  or 
pretens,  dischairgeing  and  inhibiteing  thame  tliairof  undir  the  pane  of  conliscationn 
of  the  same  to  his  Heynes  use ;  with  certificatioun  to  the  contravenaris  heirof  the 
same  pane  salbe  execute  upoun  thame  without  favour ;  and  ordains  letteres  of 
publicatioun  to  be  direct  heirupoun  gif  neid  lieis  to  all  and  sundrie  his  Majesteis 
leigeis  that  nane  of  thame  pretend  ignorance  of  the  same,  in  forme  as  etfeiris. 
Extractum  de  libris  actorum  secreti  consilij  S. D.N.  regis  per  me  Jacobum  Prymrois, 
clericum  ejusdem  sub  meis  signo  et  subscriptione  manualibus. 

JACOBUS  PRYMROIS. 

Letticrs  by  King  James  VI  against  the  transportation 
of  linen  yarn.  12  March  1612 

.James  be  the  grace  of  Cod  King  of  Grite  Bryttayne,  France  and  Ireland  defendar 
of  the  faith.  To  oure  lovittis,  messingeris  oure  schirettis  in  that  pairt  conjunctlie 
and  severalie  specialie  constitute  greting.  b’orsamekle  as  it  is  humelie  meanit  and 
schawin  to  ws  be  oure  lovittis  the  wobstaris,  weavaris  ami  claithmakeris  within  this 
oure  kingdome  that  quhair  we  and  the  lordis  of  our  prevey  coun.sale  be  ane  speciall 
act  of  restreant  maid  upoun  the  threttene  day  of  Januair  lastbypast  lies  expreslie 
statute  and  ordanit  that  na  manir  of  merchantis,  passingeris  nor  trafficquaris  within 
this  our  realme  alswele  our  awne  subjectis  as  straingearis  qnhatsumevir  presome  nor 
tak  upoun  hand  at  ony  tyme  aftir  the  dait  foirsaid  of  the  said  act  to  cary  or  trans- 
porte  furth  of  this  our  realme  ony  lynning  yarne  undir  quhatsumevir  cullor  and 
pretens,  dischairgeing  and  inhibiting  thame  tliairof  undir  tlie  pane  of  confiscatioun 
of  the  same  with  certificatioun,  to  the  contravenaris  thairof  the  same  pane  salbe 
execute  upoun  thame  without  favour,  as  the  act  foirsaid  at  mair  lenth  beiris,  quhich 
is  dewlie  publeist  with  all  solenipnities  and  cerimonyis  requisite  to  all  and  sundrie 


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cure  leigeis  and  subjectis  to  the  effect  thay  pretend  no  ignorance  of  tlie  same  in  tyme 
earning,  notwithstanding  quliairof  div^ers  of  the  saidis  merchanti.s  and  tratiicqiiaris 
alswell  cure  awne  subjectis  as  straiiigearis  yit  continewis  in  the  unlanclifull  trade  of 
transporting  of  lynning  yairiie  forbiddin  to  l)e  transportit  as  said  is,  and  nicht  and 
day  privelie  convoyis  the  same  yairne  in  grite  quantyteis  both  be  sea  and  land  furtli 
of  cure  countrey,  makand  small  accom[)t  of  the  effect  and  force  of  the  said  act,  to 
the  heich  contempt  of  ws  and  to  the  hurte  and  prejudice  of  tlie  saidis  complenairis 
and  mony  utheris  our  guidis  subjectis  of  this  oure  realme.  Oure  will  is  lieirfore  and 
we  chairge  you  straitlie  and  conmiandis  that  incontinent  thir  oure  letteres  sene  ye 
pas  and  in  oure  name  and  auctoritie  fens  and  arreist  all  and  quhatsnmevir  lynning 
yairne  whilk  is  to  be  caryed  and  transportit  furth  of  this  oure  realme  in  whatsumevir 
barkis,  boitis,  crearis,  and  vescliellis  be  sea,  or  packis  be  land ;  and  to  that  effect 
that  ye  mak  oppin  duris  and  utheris  lokfast  lowmes  and  use  oure  keyis  thairto,  to 
remane  undir  arreistment  ay  and  qiihill  sutficient  cautioun  and  souirtie  be  foundin  that 
the  same  salbe  furtheumand  to  oure  thesaurer  in  oure  name  and  to  oure  use  and 
utheris  oure  leigeis  as  accordis  of  the  law;  the  quhilk  to  do  we  commit  to  you 
conjunctlie  and  severalie  oure  full  pouers  be  thir  oure  letteres  delivering  thame  be 
you  dewlie  execute  ami  indorsat  agane  to  the  [lordis].  Gevin  undir  oure  signet  at 
Edinburgh  the  twelft  day  of  Marche,  and  of  oure  reigne  the  nynt  and  fourty  fyve 
yeiris  1612. 

Ex  deliberatione  dominorum  secret!  consilij  etc. 

JA.  PRYMKOIS. 

To  the  lords  of  his  Majesties  most  honourabill  privie 
counsell.  The  humble  petition  of  all  the  Weavers 
Sheweth  of  Scotland,  dated  21  November  1666. 

That  by  ane  old  act  of  parliament  linen  cloath  was  ordained  to  be  3  quarters 
and  a  halfe  broade  which  was  convenient  for  the  use  as  weill  of  the  cuntrie  as 
strangers,  but  upon  representation  of  some  merchants  who  were  not  interessed  in 
linneng  cloath,  ther  was  ane  act  of  parliament  past  in  anno  1661  wherby  all  linnen 
cloath  above  ten  shilling  the  elne  was  appoynted  to  be  ane  elne  and  tiio  inches 
broad  and  conforme  therto  a  gift  being  granted  to  David  Weetnes  he  lies  summarly 
chairged  all  the  weavers  of  Scotland  for  bygaine  penalties  and  contraventiouns.  And 
albeit  suspensioues  were  raised  by  great  multitudes  of  the  saids  weavers,  yet  the 
said  David  witliout  discusseing  the  said  suspensione,  have  still  of  new  charged  the 
first  suspenders  every  inoneth,  resolveing  therby  to  put  the  suspenders  to  the  expeiis 
of  new  suspensiones  and  of  so  continwall  and  uninterrupted  attendance  as  will  serve 
thousands  of  families  and  will  occasione  the  leidges  forbeare  absolutly  to  weave  for 
fear  of  confiscation  and  breakes  all  the  mercats  quhairof  linnen  cloath  used  to  be  a 
great  commoditie,  and  therby  publict  tratfiq  for  the  advantage  quhairof  this  act  was 
introduced  will  be  by  this  act  absolutly  ruined.  My  it  therfor  please  your  lordships 
to  call  for  the  first  suspension,  and  to  ordaine  the  said  David  Weemes  to  insist 
therin,  and  to  command  the  said  David  Weemes  not  to  raise  aney  new  letteres, 
nor  to  chairge  upon  the  old  letteres  untiil  the  first  suspension  be  discusit,  for  it 


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89 


clearly  appeares  by  the  not  discnsseing  of  the  old  snspensione  that  the  said  David 
is  conscious  to  hiinselfe  that  the  same  will  tliscns  in  favoures  of  the  weavers ;  and 
before  the  lordis  of  session,  tlie  old  sus])ension  most  receave  a  decision  before  aney 
new  charge  be  given,  whereas,  if  the  old  suspension  were  to  be  discussit,  it  wold 
appeire  that  the  weavers  were  opprest  from  thes  following  reasones ;  — 

First  tliat  it  is  unjust  and  against  the  interest  of  the  leidges  that  they  souhl 
be  forceil  to  weave  quhat  is  for  their  owne  privat  use  at  aney  nther  measure  nor 
quhat  tliey  think  fitt  and  convenient  for  their  owne  exigencies  ;  and  trew  it  is,  that 
for  hand  towells,  childrins  skirts  and  for  maney  nther  domestiek  uses  linnen  cloath 
of  les  breadeth  then  ([iihat  is  [irescryved  be  tlie  act  of  parliament  is  absolute  necesser  ; 
and  forraine  seall  being  only  designet  be  the  act  of  parliament  as  the  motive  for 
quhich  that  breadeth  is  introduced,  it  were  against  all  reasone  and  publict  advantage, 
that  quhat  is  made  for  privat  use  should  be  lemited  by  reulles  of  forraine  traide  in 
quhicli  the  same  is  nowayes  concerned  (Second)  The  said  David  Weenies  does 
naewayes  manadge  tlie  trust  or  publict  imployment  quliich  is  the  designe  of  the  act 
for  aney  publict  advantage  seing  lie  grants  licence  upon  eompositione  to  ane_v  of  the 
weavers  in  Scotland  to  weave  cloath  of  (pihat  breadeth  they  pleas  he  lieing  satisfied 
by  the  said  transactione  as  his  privat  interest.  (Third)  The  weavers  are  naewayes 

lyable  in  contraventione  of  the  said  act,  for  they  serve  the  leidges  in  the  way 

prescryved  to  them,  hot  the  cloath  shouhl  only  be  conhscated  quhich  so  woven  at 
the  desyre  of  the  leidges,  for  it  is  in  the  power  of  the  leidges  to  present  them  the 
yearne  commensurable  to  the  af*t  of  parliament,  hot  they  most  either  work  as  the 

act  of  parliament  prescryves  or  sterve  themselfes  and  their  fainillie  (Fourth)  The 
penalties  and  exactiones  are  by  the  act  of  jiarliament  only  applicable  to  the  use  of 
magistrats  of  burghes,  lords  of  regalities,  barrons  and  shyrertes  before  quhom  the 
weavers  may  be  perseweil  and  fyned  or  confyned  (|uhich  were  introduced  be  the  said 
act  in  favores  not  only  of  thes  hot  of  the  weavers,  it  being  su)iposed  that  ther 

were  magi'trats  or  maisters  wold  be  more  favorable  to  them  then  aney  strangers, 

and  to  prevent  the  petitioners  being  drawen  to  the  utter  destruction  of  their  traide 
and  poore  families;  and  it  is  confidently  expected  that  the  saids  lords  of  regalitie, 
shyreft'es,  barrons  and  utheres  as  to  this  particular  will  look  to  their  owne  interest 
especially  being  most  of  the  gentlemen  in  Scotland  wold  by  this  preparative  be 

ruined  in  their  rents  and  privat  fortounes  (Fourth)  [s/c]  The  said  chairge  is  most 
sunimar  and  unwarrantable  seing  it  requyres  no  proceeding  decreet  as  the  ground 

therof  quherby  maney  innocent  people  are  daly  charged  who  were  never  guyltie  of 
aney  breach  of  this  act ;  and  it  is  against  a  principall  in  law  that  execution  sould 
preceed  sentence  quherof  it  is  the  effect  and  should  not  be  the  cause.  (Fifth)  The 
letteres  ought  to  be  simplieiter  suspendit  as  bygaines  in  respect  the  leidges  could 
nather  get  seall  for  their  cloath  abroad  nor  could  the  weavers  be  accomodat  in 
materials  such  as  reeds  and  utheres  fitt  for  workeing  cloath  of  the  breadeth  prescryved 
he  act  of  parliament,  and  that  in  respect  of  the  warre  and  the  interruption  of 

commerce. 

In  respect  of  all  quhich  it  is  humbly  creaved,  that  seing  this  act  is  of  the 
natoure  of  penall  statutes,  and  seing  this  act  was  never  in  observance,  in  consideration 


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quherof  the  exchequer,  at  the  passeing  of  tlie  gift,  doeth  reserve  a  power  to  themselfes 
to  liniite  or  recall  the  same  as  they  thought  fitt,  that  therfor  your  lortlshipis  finding 
the  nianey  inconveniences  that  wold  arrise  to  the  nation  would  therfore  be  pleased 
to  call  before  you  such  of  the  said  traide  and  of  other  disinteressed  magistrats  and 
gentillmen  who  understand  the  same,  and  after  mature  deliberation  regulat  the 
execution  of  the  said  act  as  ye  shall  see  convenient,  and  that  in  the  interim  your 
lordships  wold  discharge  aney  execution  untill  the  reasones  of  the  first  suspensione 
be  discussit  as  said  is. 

xliij  Act  dischargeing  the  exportation  of  Linnen  yearne 
and  regulating  the  bredth  of  Linnen  cloath  &c.  1641. 

Our  Soveraine  Lord  conceiving  it  necesar  for  the  good  and  wellbeing  of  his 

iSlajesties  subjeetis  to  project  and  indevore  the  improvement  of  all  the  native  com¬ 
modities  of  his  Majesties  antieut  kingdom  and  to  mak  lawes  and  ordinajices  for 
eviting  and  preventing  of  all  fraud  and  deceit  used  heirtofore  in  making  seall  of  the 
saidis  commodities  and  considering  that  it  wold  tend  more  to  the  advantage  of  his 
Majesties  subjeetis  and  promoteing  of  manufacturies  to  restraine  the  libertie  that 

merchandis  have  taken  to  export  linnen  yearne  then  suffer  them  to  carrie  the  sanien 
unto  uther  places  and  kingdomes.  Therfor  his  INIajestie  with  advyse  and  consent  of 
his  esfeatis  of  parliament  discharges  any  merchant  or  utheris  whatsomever  to  trans- 
[)ort  out  of  this  kingdome  any  linnen  yearne  under  the  pain  of  confiscation  of  the 
samen  the  on  half  to  his  Majesties  use  and  the  uther  half  to  the  use  of  the  attacher 

and  apprehender  of  the  said  yearne,  and  statutis  and  ordainis  that  all  yearne  be  sold 

be  weight  and  that  noe  reell  be  maid  use  of  within  this  kingdome  under  the  measour 
<and  length  of  ten  quarteris  and  that  under  the  paine  of  confiscation  of  any  yearne 

brought  to  the  mercat  of  a  shorter  reell,  the  one  half  to  his  Majesties  use  and  the 

uther  halfe  to  the  use  of  the  delateris  ami  apprehenderis  of  the  said  yearne ;  [as]  also 
his  Majestie  considering  that  linnen  cloath  is  on  of  the  most  usefull  commodities  of 
the  product  of  this  kingdom  [wjherhy  much  money  in  ancient  tymes  was  hrought  in 

and  that  now  to  the  great  prejudice  of  the  said  conimoditie  the  samen  is  [become] 

in  contempt  abroad  and  become  hardlie  vendable  through  the  deceitfull  making  evill 
bleetching  and  iinequall  hredth  [thereof.  Therjfor  his  Majestie  with  advyse  and 
consent  of  the  saidis  estatis  doth  discharge  and  prohibit  all  weaveris  to  mak  any  linnen 
[cloath]  of  the  pryce  of  ten  shilling  Scotis  the  ell  or  above  under  the  hredth  of  ane 
ell  and  tuo  inches  efter  the  first  day  of  [N]ovember  nixt  to  come  under  the  paine 
to  be  imprisoned  for  the  sp[ace]  of  fourtein  dayes  and  of  tuentie  poundis  Scotis  to 
he  payed  for  each  fatilt  to  magistratis  of  burghes,  shirefis  of  shires,  lordis  of  regalities 
and  harronis  within  ther  respective  boundis  and  of  the  confiscation  of  the  samen  to 
the  use  of  the  attacheris  and  discovereris  therof ;  and  statutis  that  all  linnen  cloath 
he  taken  up  by  selvage  and  not  by  the  rigg  and  so  to  be  presented  to  the  mercat, 
and  that  all  linnen  cloath  be  hleatched  without  lime  under  the  paine  of  tuentie 
poundis  for  each  fault  to  he  payed  to  the  magistratis  forsaid  within  ther  respective 
boundis ;  and  lastly  it  is  heirby  decleared  that  all  fiax  and  linnen  yearne  imported, 
and  all  linnen  cloath  ex|)orted  by  such  as  shall  enter  in  to  the  companies  and 


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manufacturies  for  making  of  linnen  cloath  shall  he  fre  of  cu.stome  and  all  nther 

imposition  for  the  space  of  fyftein  yeiris  efter  the  saidis  manufacturies  shall  he 

esteablished  in  the  personis  of  such  as  shall  enter  themselves  in  the  saidis  compainis 

betwixt  and  the  first  of  Januarie  next,  conforme  to  ane  utlier  ordainance  of  parliament 
for  esteablishing  of  the  saidis  compainies. 

At  the  craftis  hospitall  the  22  of  Junij  1663. 

The  4uhilk  day,  Johne  Falconer,  deacone,  and  the  inaist  pairt  of  the  calling 
being  conveinet,  have,  be  pluralitie  of  voatis,  noininat  and  appoyntit  Micheall  Watsone 
and  John  Clerk,  tuo  of  tliair  number,  to  pas  to  the  heigh  court  of  parliament  for 

supplicating  thame  to  gett  redres  or  mitigatioune  of  the  43  act  of  parliament  of  King 
Charles  the  first  of  blessed  memorie,  niaiil  anent  the  dischairgeing  and  prohibiting 
all  weifers  to  make  any  lining  cloathe  of  the  pryce  of  ten  schilling  the  elne  or 

above  wnder  the  breadthe  of  ane  elne  and  tuo  inches  under  the  paines  thairin 
conteinet,  conforme  to  the  commissioune  grantit  be  tlie  said  deacone  and  calling  for 
that  effect  of  the  dait  thairof  thairanent ;  and  for  that  effect,  the  said  deacone, 

collectour  and  maisters  ar  to  borrow  four  hundrethe  merkis  money,  and  if  the  same 
be  superexpendit  in  the  bussines,  that  thei  get  farder  is  to  be  furnischit  be  them  to 
thair  saidis  commissioners,  r|uhilk  is  to  be  allowit  and  furtlicuming  for  thair  releitf 
af  the  said  craftis  guidis  accordinglie. 

M.  ROWANI).  clericus. 

Informatioune  for  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  Brigend  and 
Rutherglen  against  David  Weymes. 

The  saids  weaveris  are  chargit  at  the  instance  of  the  said  David  for  making 
payment  to  him  of  twentie  pund  for  each  contraventione  in  workeing  and  weaveing 

or  caussing  to  worke  and  weave  lining  cloath  at  the  pryce  of  ten  shilling  Scots  ilk 

ellne  and  upward  wnder  the  bread  of  ane  ellne  and  two  inshes,  and  that  since  the 
terme  of  Lambes  1666  conforme  to  the  33  act  of  the  I  sessioune  of  parliament  in 
August  1661  &c. 

This  charge  is  founded  upon  ane  gift  granted  under  the  privie  seall  the  8  of 
Junij  1666  yearis,  and  is  given  by  the  clerk  and  under  the  .signet  to  the  privie 
counsell.  This  charge  is  lykwayes  suspendit  by  the  weaveris  in  Glasgow,  Brigend, 
and  Rutherglen  wpon  thir  reasons  :  — 

(1)  The  said  suspenderis  could  not  be  sumerlie  chargit,  hot  should  have  beine 
persewit  befor  ther  awine  magistrats  utlier  if  they  had  bein  callit  they  wauld  alledge 
that  they  could  not  be  layable  for  contravention  of  the  said  act  in  respect  they  only 
wrought  woolne  stuffe. 

(2)  The  magistrats  of  each  burgh  have  the  uplifting  of  the  said  penalties  and 
non  els. 

It  would  be  fitt  to  reforme  the  reasones  thus  (1)  By  the  constant  law  of  this 
natioune,  all  sumar  charges  such  as  horneings  aught  to  be  warranted  be  ane  express 


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act  of  parliament  appoynteing  per  expressnm,  for  horning  being  executionne  it  does 
of  its  awine  nature  requyre  a  preceiding  sentance,  and  tlierfor,  at  her  a  sentance 
should  proceed  or  this  necessatie  sliould  be  expreslie  remitted  by  ane  express  act  of 
parliament,  for  nothing  les  cane  reniitt  what  is  naturallie  and  essentiallie  requisit ; 
lykas  be  the  express  acaptionne  of  severall  acts,  it  is  expreslie  seine  that  they  heir 
waiTand  for  letteris  of  horning  when  the  parliament  thought  fitt  to  indulge  the 
saniyne  and  all  other  penall  statuts  such  as  his  is,  as  usurie  &c.  are  putt  to 
executione  not  sumerlie  but  by  preceiding  decreits. 

(3)  To  repeitt  the  second  reasone  in  the  suspensione  without  reformeing  to  ad 
this  thrid  reasone  viz. — that  the  counsell  or  exchequer  have  reservit  power  to  themselfes 
to  recall  the  act  when  they  sail  think  titt,  hut  soe  it  is  that  lining  cloath  being 
only  appoynted  by  former  lawes  and  express  acts  to  be  of  thrie  (piarteris  and  ane 
half  hroad,  and  the  lining  cloath  being  only  appoynted  to  be  of  ane  elne  and  twa 
inche  for  the  use  of  strangeris,  ther  cane  no  executione  be  craved  upon  this  gift  but 
in  swa  far  as  concerns  lining  cloath  maid  for  the  use  of  straingeris,  and  soe 
conliscatioune  should  be  onlie  wsed  for  quhat  is  transported,  and  not  for  quhat 

privat  persones  cause  make  for  ther  awne  use  and  weireing  &c. 

Since  this  act  is  only  intentit  for  commerce  it  cane  only  receave  executionne 
at  quhat  tyme  commerce  is  allowed  and  o|)pine,  hot  now  (prhen  his  Majestie  who 
hath  granted  the  gift  is  in  oiipen  sea  ware,  wherhy  comerce  is  locked  up,  and 

seing  the  materiallis  for  weiveing  as  reds  and  otheris  ar  to  be  brought  from  abroad, 
that  therfor  this  act  cane  receave  no  executione  wntill  the  seas  he  oppen  that  such 
materiallis  may  be  brought  homb ;  lykeas  wlien  this  act  wes  first  hard  of,  the  saids 
weaveris  did  absolutlie  sitt  idle  for  the  nixt  enschewing  half  year. 

To  remember  that  the  former  actis  of  parliament  appoynling  thrie  (quarter  and 
ane  halfe  are  not  e.xpreslie  advocat  by  this  act,  is  uswall  in  such  caices,  and  therfor 
to  contend  that  this  act  should  regulate  the  measure  of  home  bread  cloatli,  and  this 
act  to  l)e  according  to  the  narative  restricted  to  the  cloath  made  for  commerce,  it 
being  a  principall  in  law  that  no  act  excepted  be  expreslie  abrogat  is  presumed  to 
be  soe  bot  most  stand  in  vigore  if  it  cane  receave  ane  interpretatioune,  and  that 
this  interpretatioune  is  most  sutable  bath  to  the  natture  of  the  subject  matter  and 
to  the  previledge  of  the  leiges  who  cannot  be  in  law  obleidged  to  use  what  is  maide 
for  ther  awne  privat  use  wtherwayes  then  themselves  intendit  for  otherwayes  what 
was  desyned  as  ane  advantage  to  the  kingdome  in  generall  would  much  prejudge 

and  damnitie  at  the  privat  leidges  and  to  gratifie  strangeris  the  natives  should  be 

then  extream  great  loseris  and  much  retrinsched  in  ther  privat  liberties. 

To  remember  to  gett  the  agent  of  the  borrowes  to  concure  for  the  entres  of 
the  burghs  to  whom  the  collecting  belonges,  and  to  contend  that  it  is  in  ther  power 
to  remitt  or  regulate  the  saids  fynes  as  they  sail  sie  the  samyne  fitt  for  commerce ; 

Wota  that  this  would  be  lykwayes  aledgit  be  the  noblemen  and  gentillmen 
within  burghes  regalities,  shyrell's  of  scheiris,  and  stewartis  of  stewartries  and  regalities 


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to  remember  tlie  King  is  to  receave  litle  ailvantadge,  becaus  the  said  David  compeiiis 
and  gives  licence  for  a  considdeiable  tyme,  Ac.  Ac.  Ac. 

At  Glasgow  the  audit  day  of  October  j'''  vj>^  thrie  scoir 
seavin  yeires. 

The  qnhilk  day  in  [U'e.sens  of  me  notar  publicke  undersubscryvand  and  witnesses 
efternamit  compeirit  personaly  Johne  Gierke,  present  deacone  of  the  weivers  of  the 
hurgli  of  Glasgow  for  himself  and  in  name  and  behalf  of  the  remanent  britberein  of 
the  said  traile  and  vocatiunne  of  tlie  samyne  burgh,  and  als  compeirit  John  Cumyng, 
present  oversman  of  the  weivers  of  Gorballis  for  himself  and  in  name  and  behalf  of 
the  remanent  britlierein  of  the  said  trade  and  vocatioune  within  the  said  ^illage  of 
Gorballis;  Quho  [last  to  the  personall  presence  of  James  llryee,  messenger  in  Glasgow 
as  he  who  lies  chairgit  certane  persones  of  the  saids  weivers  of  (ilasgow  and  (unballis 
at  the  instance  of  David  Weimes,  merchand  in  Dundie  as  alleilgit  having  right  be 
his  Majesties  gift  wilder  the  privie  seall  daitit  the  audit  day  of  Junij  IbOG  yeiris 
to  the  multes  and  fynes  dew  and  lyable  be  the  transgressouris  of  the  4J  act  of  the 
first  sessione  of  parlanient  in  anno  1661  to  iiiak  [laymenb  to  him  or  any  havand 
his  warant  of  tuentie  jiunds  8cotes  money  of  fyne  imposit  be  the  said  act  for  ilke 
transgressioune  in  working  weiving  or  causing  worke  and  v\eive  lining  doath  at  tlie 
pryce  of  ten  shilling  Scotes  ilke  ellne  and  wpwards  wnder  the  bodie  of  ane  ellne 
and  two  indie  since  the  terme  of  Lambes  1666 ;  and  thair  the  saids  John  Gierke 
and  John  Guniying  for  themselves  and  in  name  and  behalf  forsaid  jiroducit  befoir 
the  said  James  Dryce,  messenger  ane  atestit  double  wilder  the  subscriptiounes  of 
Mathow  Rowand  and  Quintein  Finday,  notaris  publicke  of  the  letteres  of  suspensioune 
purchesit  and  raisit  be  the  saids  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  Gorliallis  aganst  the  said 
David  Weimes  befoir  tbe  lords  of  secreit  counsell  daitit  the  tuentie  twa  day  of  May 
last  bypast,  quherby  they  have  suspendit  the  letteres  and  chairges  raisit  he  the  said 
David  Weimes  aganst  them  in  the  said  mater  and  made  laufull  intiniatioune  to  the 
said  James  Rryce,  messenger  therof,  and  of  ane  former  instrument  takin  be  the  saids 
weivers  against  James  Mudie,  messenger  who  had  chairgit  them  thairanent  or  befoir 
protesting  against  the  said  James  Bryce,  messenger  in  the  meintyme  that  he  give 
out  no  executioune  against  them  nor  he  nor  no  uther  messenger  chairge  them  nather 
proceid  any  further  against  them  in  the  said  mater  be  vertue  of  the  letteres  and 
chairgis  raisit  or  to  be  raisit  be  the  said  David  Weimes  against  them  in  the  said 
mater — ay  and  quhill  the  saids  letteres  of  suspensioune  raisit  be  the  saids  weivers 
against  him  in  the  said  mater  be  discusit  qiihilke  is  lying  in  pi'oces  befoir  the  saids 
lords;  and  for  renieid  of  law  thairof  if  the  said  James  Bryce  doe  anything  in  the 
contrar.  Quhairupone  and  upone  all  and  sundrie  the  premisses,  the  saids  John 
Gierke  and  John  Gumying  for  themselves  and  in  name  and  behalf  forsaid,  askit  and 
tuike  instrumentis  ane  and  mae  in  the  hands  of  me  notar  publicke  underscryvand ; 
thes  things  wer  done  within  the  duelling  hous  of  the  said  James  Bryce  messenger, 
lying  on  the  south  syde  of  the  Gallowgait  of  the  said  burgh  of  Glasgow  betwixt  ten 
and  allevin  houres  in  the  foirnoone  day  moneth  and  yeir  of  God  respective  abovewrittin, 


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being  ther  present  John  Weir,  messenger  in  Glasgow,  William  Stewart,  workman 
ther  and  William  Stewart  his  sone,  with  divers  utheris  witnesses  recpiyred  and  desyred 
to  the  premisses. 

Ita  est  Matheus  Rowand,  notarius  publicus  in  fidem  robiir  et  testimonium 
veritatis  omnium  et  singulorum  premissorum  rogatus  et  requisitus  testan 
his  meis  signo  et  subscriptione  manualibus. 

The  weavers  were  fond  of  litigation,  and  had  frequently  to  appeal 
to  the  strong  arm  of  the  law.  Some  reference  has  already  been  made 
to  this  subject  in  Chapter  IV.  In  addition  to  disputes  settled  by  the 
magistrates  or  sheriffs,  they  had  several  actions  in  the  Court  of 
Session.  In  the  middle  period  of  their  history,  late  in  the  eighteenth 
and  early  in  the  nineteenth  century,  they  frequently  petitioned  Parlia¬ 
ment  on  such  suVjjects  as  the  repeal  of  the  laws  against  Popery,  the 
Corn  Laws,  the  Slave  Trade,  and  Parliamentary  Reform ;  while  on 
every  movement  in  Parliament,  and  of  the  Magistrates  and  Town 
Council,  they  freely  expressed  their  feelings,  which  frequently  were  in 
opposition  to  those  of  the  representatives  of  the  city. 


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RELATIONS  WITH  GORBALS  AND  BRIDGEND 

WEAVERS. 

We  have  no  record  whether  previous  to  the  1605  seal  of  cause 
(given  in  Chapter  I.)  the  earlier  powers  under  the  1523  charter  had  been 
exercised  against  weavers  residing  on  the  south  side  of  the  river, 
but  it  is  evident  that  as  soon  as  the  second  charter  had  been 
granted  (1605)  it  became  necessary  that  there  should  be  a  working 
arrangement  with  such  near  neighbours.  The  reasons  given  are  quaint 
— for  the  special  love,  favour,  and  kindness  of  the  Deacon  and  Glasgow 
weavers  to  the  /trovost  and  weavers  of  Bridgend.  The  text  of  the 
agreement  has  not  previously  been  planted,  and  is  given  here  in 
full:  — 


Agreement  between  tlie  Weavers  of  Glas^^ow  and  tlie 
Weavers  of  Gorbals  ilated  8  May  1605. 

At  Glasgow  tlie  audit  day  of  Maij  the  yeir  of  God  j'"  vj‘^  and  fyve  yeirs. 
It  is  appointit,  aggreit  and  tinallie  endit  betwix  tlie  jiersonns  pairties  wnderwrittin  ; 
Thay  ar  to  say  Ritcdiert  Kirkland,  deikin  of  wobsteris,  Arcliibald  Patersoune,  Findlay 
Schaksehaw,  William  Kirkland,  Georg  Herbisoun,  Robert  Lang,  maisteris  of  tlie  said 
craft  for  tliameseltis  and  takand  the  bnrdeine  iipone  thaiiie  for  the  haill  wobsters 
frieiiien  of  this  bnrght  on  the  ane  pairt,  Georg  Bryss,  John  Walker,  John  Pollock, 
Nicoll  Geinniill,  .John  Man,  .lames  Baxter,  ^yaltir  Mair,  James  Thomesoune,  Williame 
Brysse,  Andro  and  James  Bryssis,  wobstf'iis,  indiiellaris  at  Brigend,  iipone  the  landis 
of  Gorballis  on  the  utlier  pairt  in  maner  following  : — Forsameikle  as  the  wobsteris  of 
this  burght  haveing  granted  unto  tlianie  be  proveist  baillies  and  connsall  certane 
liberties  and  priviledgis  conteinit  in  thair  lettere  of  deikinheid  for  the  weill  of  thair 
craft,  quhairby  thai  may  hinder  the  foirsaidis  persounis  in  using  ony  of  thair  liberties 
and  priviledges  within  this  burght  be  wertew  of  the  quliilkis  priviledgis  and  liberties 
granted  v’nto  thame  be  proveist,  baillies  and  connsall  thai  may  pwnische  and  wnlaw 
the  saidis  wobsteris  of  Brigend  and  all  wtheris  wnfriemen  hantand  or  usand  thair 
liberties  within  the  fredom  and  libertie  of  this  burght,  and  speciallie  to  cans  thame 
pay  custome  of  ilk  wob  thai  present  to  the  niarkat  of  this  burght,  and  for  all  wrocht 
wobis  thai  be  apprehendit  bringand  in  within  this  burght ;  and  siclyk  to  wnlaw  thame 
for  all  work  that  thai  or  ony  of  thame  can  be  chaulengit  taking  furth  of  this 


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biiight ;  and  ^^enerallie  to  stay  and  stop  and  hinder  thaine  and  all  ntheris  wnfrienien 
to  hant  or  use  the  priviledgis  of  thair  craft  within  this  hnrght.  Thairfoir  for  the 
speciall  Inife  favour  and  kyndnes  ipihilk  the  said  Ritcliert  Kirkland  niaisteris  and 
remanent  wohsteris  of  this  hurght  lies  and  heiris  towardis  the  ryght  honourahill  Sir 
Georg  Elphin.stonne  of  Blyswood,  knicht,  proveist  of  this  hurght,  and  maister  to  the 
saidis  wohsteris  of  Brigend  ;  and  for  the  yeirlie  payment  he  ilk  ane  of  the  foirnametis 
wohsteris  of  Brigend  to  the  said  deikin  and  niaisteris  of  craft  of  tlie  sowme  of  audit 

scliillingis  money  to  he  jiayit  at  four  tennis  in  the  yeir,  the  said  Richert  Kirkland 

deikin  and  niaisteris  foirsaidis  for  thamesellis  and  in  name  of  the  remanent  wohsteris 
of  this  hurght  lies  givin  and  grantit  lykas  lie  thir  presentis  givis  and  grantis  full 
lihertie  priviledge  and  owersidit  in  hanting  using  and  ocupying  of  the  wobster  craft 
to  the  saidis  wohsteris  of  Brigend,  and  to  ilk  ane  of  tlianie  and  to  thair  bairnis 
heand  wohsteris  and  haveand  thair  speciall  residence  and  duelling  within  the  landis 
of  Gorhallis  or  ony  ntheris  landis  perteining  heritahilly  to  the  saiil  Sir  Georg  without 
this  hurght  and  lihertie  of  the  samin  (prowyding  alwayis  thair  bairnis  heand  wohsteris 
pay  the  custome  wiiderwrittiii) ;  and  generallie  givis  and  grantis  wnto  tlianie  full 

lihertie  and  ji  iwar  to  liant  us  or  exerceis  ony  uther  fredome  of  the  said  craft  witliin 

the  lihertie  of  this  hurght  nuliairof  thai  niiclit  have  himlerit  tlianie  be  wertew  of 

tliair  lettere  of  deikinheid.  For  the  quhilk  lihertie  priviledge  and  owersidit  grantit 
wnto  tlianie  he  the  said  Ritcliert  Kirkland  niaisteris  foirsaidis  for  tlianieselfis  and 
remanent  wohsteris  of  this  hurght.  Tlie  saidis  Georg  Brysse,  John  Walker,  John 
Bollock,  Niooll  Gemmill,  John  Man,  Janies  Baxter,  AAhiltir  Mair,  Janies  Thoniesoune, 
Williame  Brysse,  Janies  and  Andro  Bryssis  liindis  and  ohleissis  tlianie  and  ilk  ane  of 
thame  yeirlie  to  content  and  pay  to  the  said  Ritcliert  Kirkland  and  niaisteris  of 
craft  foirsaid  or  to  ony  iitliir  deikin  or  niaisteris  of  the  said  craft  of  this  hurght 
for  the  tyme,  the  sowme  of  audit  sdiillingis  money  [ilk  an]e  of  thame  at  four  termis 
in  the  yeir,  viz. —Beltane,  Lamhes,  Hallowmes,  and  Candillmes  [making]  the  first 
([uarteris  payment  presentlie  for  tlie  terme  of  Beltane  last  hipast,  and  sua  furth 

[termely  and]  ([uarterlie  during  thair  lyftymis.  And  in  cais  it  sail  happen  ony  of 
the  foirsaidis  persoiiuis  wohs[teris  of]  Brigend  to  remove  thamesellis  furth  of  the  said 
Sir  Georg  laudis  and  not  to  remaine  his  tennentis  nor  jiay  him  maill  and  dewtie, 
that  than  and  iii  that  eaice,  the  said  lihertie  priviledge  and  owirsicht  na  farder  nor 
langer  to  he  extemlit  towardis  the  foirsaidis  persoiinis  or  ony  of  thame  that  remaine 
not  the  .said  Sir  Georg  tennentis.  And  for  the  mair  securitie  all  the  saidis  persounis 
pairties  abovewrittin  ai-  content  and  consentis  that  thir  presentis  he  insert  and  registrat 
in  the  huikis  of  counsall,  comniissaris  huikis  of  Glasgow  or  burroiv  cowrt  buikis 

thairof,  that  ane  decreit  of  the  lordis,  comniissaris  foirsaid  or  proveist  and  haillies  of 

the  said  burgh  may  he  interponit  heirto  that  executoriallis  of  horning  poynding  and 
warding  may  pas  and  he  direct  heirupone  the  ane  prejudeice  of  the  uther,  and  the 
horning  to  pas  upone  ane  single  charge  of  sax  dayis  allauirly  and  to  this  effect  makis 
and  constitutis  thair 

[irocuratouris  and  ilk  ane  of  thame  conjunctly  and  sewerallie  in  uberiore  forma, 
etc.  in-omitten.  de  ratu,  etc.,  witlie  powar,  etc.;  In  ivutnes  quhairof  thir  presentis 
wreitin  he  William  Fleming,  iiottar,  we  have  subscrivit  with  our  handis  as  followis 


Plate  III— Titles  of  Gouhals  Lands  (See  Page  120). 


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befoir  tliir  Avitnessis  Andro  Car,  Waltir  Schirilaw,  Georg  SchirilaAv,  Jolm  Clerk, 
Avobster,  and  MatheAv  Fischer,  nottar. 

We,  Ritchert  Kirkland,  deikin,  Archibald  Patersonne,  Findlay 
SchakschaAv,  Robert  Lang,  Georg  Herbisoune,  Georg  Brysse, 
John  Walker,  John  Pollock,  Nicoll  Gennnill,  John  Man, 
James  Baxter,  Waltir  Mair,  James  Thomsoune,  Williame 
Bryss,  Andro  and  James  Brysais  Avith  onr  handis  at  the 
pen  led  be  the  connotaris  AvnderAvrittin  becaus  Ave  could 
not  Avreit  ourself. 

(Parer  Aviyn) .  Notarius  Publicus.  De  mandatis  omnium 

predictarum  personarum  scribere  nescien.  testante  maim 

(Paper  worn) 

Ita  est  Robertas  Blair,  notarius  publicus  ac  conotarius  in 

premissis  requisitus  manu  sub^-  1605. 

George  SchirilaAV,  Wittnes.  Williame  Kirkland  Avith  my  hand, 
Johne  Clerk,  Avitness.  MathoAV  Fischer,  notar,  Avitness. 
Wallter  SchirrillaAV,  Avitnes.  AihIioaa'  Ker,  Avitnes. 

Whether  or  not  a  dispute  liad  arisen  there  is  no  record,  probably 
not,  yet  less  than  a  year  after  the  signing  of  the  agreement  it  was 
found  advisable  to  agree  upon  a  means  of  settling  disputes,  as 
follows ; — 

(8-2  1606) 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deakin  and  maisteris  and  haill  bretherene  of  craft  on  the 
ane  pairt,  Niniane  Paislay,  George  and  Andro  Bryceis,  and  John  Pollok,  on  the 
uther  pairt,  takand  the  burdene  on  thame  for  the  remanent  Avobsteris  of  Brigend 
and  Gorballis,  all  in  ane  A-oce  condiscendis,  statntis  and  ordanis  that  quhatsumevir 

accident  or  contraA'ersie  sail  hapfiin  to  fall  out  betuix  the  saidis  pairties  concerning 
the  privileges  and  liberties  grantit  be  the  Avobsteris  of  this  burgh  to  the  saidis  Avobsteris 
of  Brigend  contenit  in  the  lettir  set  doun  thairanent  betuix  thame,  salbe  judgit, 
tryit,  and  decydit  befoir  the  deakin  of  the  Avobsteris  of  this  burgh  and  maisteris  of 
craft  for  the  tyme,  and  four  of  the  honest  men  of  the  Avobsteris  of  Brigend  for  the 
tyme,  and  be  na  uther  judges  concerning  the  foirsaid  lettir  and  privileges  thairin 
specifeit ;  and  give  ony  of  the  pairties,  Avobsteris  of  this  burgh  and  Brigend  appeillis 

thame  to  ony  uther  judge  anent  the  premissis,  the  persoun  appeilland  sail  pay  ten  li. 

of  unlaAV  toties  quoties  to  be  equally  resavit  and  devydit  betuix  the  Avobsteris  of  this 
burgh  and  Brigend  in  all  tym  coming  as  the  samyn  sail  happin  to  incur. 

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Tliere  are  for  several  years  succeedino-  1641  regular  entries  such 
as  this : — 

xvj  Octoboni'  1641 

Tlie  qubilk  ilay,  I'atrik  Bryce,  and  Allan  Andirsoun,  lie.s  instantlie  payit  to  tlie 
croft  tucntie  inerkis,  npliftit  be  them  fra  the  weiferis  in  Gorballis,  as  lieavin"  power 
of  the  croft  to  uplift  the  same  the  last  yeir ;  and  thairfoir  the  croft  exoneris  and 
discharges  them  of  the  said  yeiris  intromissionn,  quhilk  wes  npliftit  be  them,  be  thir 
presentis  for  evil'. 

Then  as  a  preliminaiy  to  a  new  agreement  occurs  the  following: — 

17  November  1656. 

The  said  day,  it  is  wnamouslie  concludit  that  the  mater  anent  the  weiferis  in 
Gorballis  be  foliowit  out  to  the  outermost. 

There  had  been  a  purchase  of  the  lands  of  Gorbals  and  Bridgend 
by  the  Magistrates  and  Town  Council,  who  later  made  over  the 
same  to  the  Trades’  House  and  Trades.  Being  the  successors  of 
Sir  George  Elphinstone,  with  whom  the  1605  agreement  was  made, 
the  “  proveist,  balzies,  and  counsall  ”  are  instrumental  in  having  a 
new  agreement  come  to,  as  follows : — 

Contract  and  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of 
Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals,  dated  10  April 
1657. 

Att  Glasgow  the  tenth  day  of  Apryll  j'"  vj'^  fyftie  seven  yeires  It  is  appoynted 
and  agried  betuixt  the  discreit  persones  pairties  following  They  are  to  say  Johne 
Falconar,  present  deacon  of  the  weivers  of  the  said  burghe  of  Glasgow,  Patrick 
Bryce,  Michaell  Watsone,  Johne  Kessane,  collectour,  Archibald  Glen,  Ritchart  Flaik- 
field,  William  Falconar,  Andrew  Lies,  Johne  Lies,  Johne  Clarke,  Walter  Stewart, 
James  Graham,  James  Falconar,  Robert  Nisbit,  and  Johne  M'Allester  for  themselfes 
and  as  takand  the  burding  in  and  upone  them  for  the  haill  remanent  brethreine  of 
that  calling  and  ther  successouris  weivers  and  burgessis  of  the  said  burghe  one  the 
ane  pairt,  and  William  Boigle,  John  Marschell  elder,  David  Scott,  Johne  Andersone, 
Johne  Glen,  David  Hoggisyaird,  Robert  Watsone,  Thomas  Wast,  William  Allexander, 
William  Gordoune,  Johne  Fleyniing,  Archibald  Barre,  Walter  Livingstoune,  Johne 
Walker,  Johne  Filppe,  William  Andersone,  Tliomas  Andersone,  Johne  Montgomerie, 
Robert  Gemmill,  Patrick  Ritchie,  Thomas  Hill,  James  Scheillis,  Hew  Duchall,  William 
Robiesone,  Johne  Marschell  younger,  William  Gilkersone,  Alexander  Hammiltone, 
Johne  Cummyng,  Johne  Scheillis,  Thomas  Muir,  Archibald  Barre,  and  Johne  Davidsone 
now  weivers  in  Gorballis  and  Muir  therof  for  themselfes  and  as  haveing  full  power 


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warrand  and  coininis.sioune  of  the  haill  remanent  weivers  now  presently  indwellers  in 
the  saids  lands  of  Gorballis  and  Mnir  therof  foirsaid  and  as  takand  the  hurdin"  in 
and  npone  them  for  the  saids  remanent  weivers  now  presentlie  dwelling  in  Gorballis 
and  Muir  therof  foirsaid  one  the  other  pairt  in  maner  forme  and  effect  following 
That  is  to  say  forsameikle  as  about  fyftie  (blank)  yeires  since  or  therhy  ther  was 
ane  mntnall  contract  and  agriement  made  drawne  wpe  and  subscryved  betuixt  the 
deacon  and  maisters  of  the  said  burghe  of  Glasgow  for  the  tyme,  and  the  weivers 
of  Gorballis  also  for  the  tyme  Wherin  for  diverse  and  snndrie  liberties  grantit  and 
conferrit  be  the  said  weivers  of  Glasgow  tipone  the  saids  weivers  of  Gorballis  the 
saids  weivers  of  Gorballis  were  bund  and  obleist  to  performe  diverse  and  snndrie 
ohleismentis  to  the  saids  weivers  of  Glasgow  at  lenth  mentionat  in  the  said  contract 
wherthrow  ever  sen  syne  ther  lies  beine  ane  mntnall  love  and  correspondencie  kept 
amongst  them;  And  now  sieing  he  the  providence  of  God  they  doe  all  now  leive 
under  one  held  and  snperiour  the  proveist  liail/ies  and  connsell  of  Glasgow  now 
nndoubtit  lanfnll  snperiouris  of  the  saids  lands  of  Gorballis.  And  the  saids  pairties 
being  all  most  willing  that  the  foirsaid  old  love  peace  and  amity  that  lies  heine 
betui.xt  the  weivers  of  this  hnrghe  and  the  weivers  of  the  saids  lands  of  Gorballis 
may  be  rather  augmented  nor  diminished  ;  and  following  the  e.\am}ile  of  iither  weill 
governed  pairtis  in  the  Ij’ke,  as  amongst  the  weivers  of  Edinburgh,  Westport  and 
Fotterraw,  it  is  thoght  good  he  the  saids  j'airties  following  the  advyse  and  consent 
of  the  saids  proveist  bailzies  and  connsell  of  Glasgow,  and  for  eschewing  the  hurt 
and  prejudice  might  fall  out  be  the  act  of  parliament  sett  doiin  in  anno  1592  anent 
craftismen  exerciseing  ther  crafts  in  suburbs  to  burrowes  to  sett  donne  certane  lieids 
and  articles  whilkis  are  to  be  keipt  and  observed  be  them  heirefter  for  the  good  and 
commoditie  of  all  of  them  ;  and  are  to  be  keipt  observed  and  fultilled  to  others  not 
onely  for  the  present  hot  he  all  of  that  calling  dwelling  in  the  saids  bounds  in  tyme 
and  adges  succeeding : —In  the  lirst, — It  is  declared  be  the  saids  weivers  of  Gorballis 
under-suhscryveand  for  themselfes  and  in  name  and  behalfe  of  the  haill  remanent 
weivers  inhabitantis  therintill  present  and  to  come,  that  whatsumever  freedom, 
tollerance,  or  libertie  they  have  for  exerceing  ther  calling  in  the  saids  hounds  of 
Gorballis  in  taking  furth  and  bringing  work  fra  and  to  this  burghe  according  to 
ther  wont  use  and  habeit  that  the  samine  is  givin  and  grantit  to  them  he  the  saids 
weivers  of  the  foirsaid  liurghe  of  Glasgoxv.  iSecondlie — It  is  accordit  agried  and 

mutually  condescendit  upone  betuixt  the  saids  jiairties  that  the  saids  weivers  in 
Gorballis  present  and  to  come  sail  have  libertie  yeirlie  heirefter  to  have  ane  oversman 
conforme  to  the  warrand  alre,ady  grantit  be  the  saids  proveist,  bailzies  and  connsell 
for  that  effect  who  sail  be  choysne  in  this  maner, — To  witt,  the  saids  weivers  in 
Gorballis  shall  choyse  out  thrie  of  the  most  qualitied  men  amongst  them  and  putt 
ther  names  in  leit,  and  present  that  leit  ilk  first  Eryday  of  Maij  yeirlie  heirefter  to 
the  deacon  of  the  saids  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  his  maisters  of  craft  in  the  crafts 
hospitall  within  the  samine  burghe  to  the  effect  one  of  them  may  be  electit  oversman 
for  the  yeir  ensewing ;  and  the  said  oversman  being  swa  electit  that  he  with  the 
haill  weivers  in  Gorballis  sail  have  power  to  choise  out  twelve  in  number  of  the 
worthiest  of  ther  brethreine,  and  out  of  these  twelve  they  sail  make  choyse  of  sex 


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to  be  assessouris  to  tlie  said  oversman ;  and  to  begin  efter  the  dait  heirof  or  in  Maij 
nixt.  Whilks  oversman  and  assessouris  being  swa  cboysne  sail  have  power  to  judge 
in  all  maters  betuixt  brother  and  brother  relaiting  to  ther  calling  allennerlie ;  and 
for  giveing  satisfactioune  to  the  pairties  who  sail  have  ther  workis  spilt  wronged  or 
longer  keipt  nor  is  promeist,  the  saids  weivers  in  Gorballis  being  alwayes  subject  to 
the  authorities  of  the  bailzies  ther,  according  as  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  are  subject 
to  the  magistratis  therof.  And  if  they  cannot  agrie  in  maters  amongst  themselfes 
then  the  said  mater  sail  be  brought  to  the  saids  deacon  of  weivers  of  Glasgow  and 
his  maisters,  who  sail  have  power  to  determine  therintill.  Item. — It  is  farder  agried 
that  the  saids  weivers  in  Gorballis  and  ther  successouris  present  and  to  come  sail 
not  accept  ressave  or  suffer  any  stranger  weivers  to  sitt  doune  and  setle  himselfe 

ther  in  tyme  cuming,  or  to  set  wpe  any  workhous  or  loome,  without  the  speciall 

advyse  and  consent  of  the  deacon  of  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  his  maisters  of  craft 
and  ther  successouris  had  and  obteined  therto,  and  that  he  sail  be  first  bookit  in 
ane  book  to  be  made  for  that  use,  to  be  under  the  keiping  of  the  weivers  of 

Glasgow  and  ther  clerk.  And  the  compositioune  for  ther  Avpsetis  both  for  the  saids 
strangers  as  also  for  prenteissis,  friemens  sones  and  suche  as  maries  friemens  dochters 
ther,  sail  be,  in  quantitie,  and  be  payit  in  maner  following  by  and  besyde  the 

clerkis  ties,  viz  :  Ilk  stranger  weiver  intending  to  make  his  dwelling  and  residence 
in  the  Gorballis  the  sowme  of  fourtie  merkis  Scotts  money  les  or  mair  as  sail  be 
thoght  good  be  the  said  deacon  and  sex  of  his  maisters  of  craft  of  Glasgow,  and 
be  the  said  oversman  in  Gorballis  and  his  sex  assessouris.  Item. — Ilk  prenteis  taking 
wpe  his  tread  and  working  at  his  owne  hand  the  sowme  of  sextine  ptinds  money 
foirsaid  les  or  mair.  Item. — Ilk  freemans  sone  or  ony  that  maries  ane  freemans 
dochter  being  ane  inhabitant  and  ane  weiver  intending  to  make  his  residence  in 
Gorballis,  .sail  pay  the  sowme  of  eight  punds  money  les  or  mair  as  sail  be  thoght 
good  in  maner  foirsaid,  and  all  to  be  bookit  as  said  is.  Whilkis  haill  .sowmes  sail 
be  eqnallie  dealt  and  devydit  betuixt  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  the  weivers  of 
Gorballis  to  be  imployed  be  them  for  the  helpe  and  supplie  of  ther  poor  decayed 
respective  brethreine.  Item. — It  is  farder  accordit  and  agried  betuixt  the  saids  pairties, 
that  every  persone  weiver  in  Gorballis  that  keips  one  or  mae  loonies,  or  workhous 
ther  for  the  former  freedome  grantit  as  said  is  shall  pay  yeirlie  to  the  weivers  of 
Glasgow  and  ther  successouris  tlie  sowme  of  twentie  shillings  Scotts  money  for  ilk 
loome  proportionallie  at  the  four  quarters  in  the  yeir  Candlemes,  Beltan,  Lambes,  and 
Ilallowmes,  beginand  at  Beltan  nixt,  and  whilk  is  to  be  imployed  for  the  weill  and 
behoufe  of  the  poor  decayed  brethreine  of  that  calling  within  the  said  burghe  of 
Glasgow  allennerlie  bot  prejudice  to  these  in  Gorballis  to  astrict  themselfes  to  pay 
quarterlie  some  meane  small  thing  as  they  can  agrie  amongst  themselfes  for  the  use 
of  ther  owne  poor.  Item,— It  is  condescendit  and  agried  upone  betuixt  the  saids 
pairties,  that  it  sail  be  leissume  to  every  one  of  the  saids  freemen  weivers  in 
Gorballis  to  take  ane  prenteis  ilk  fourth  yeir,  and  that  prenteis  sail  be  bound  fyve 
yeirs  as  ane  prenteis  who  sail  be  bookit  as  said  is,  and  dureing  all  that  tyme  he 
sail  be  furnished  be  his  maister  in  meit,  and  sail  not  be  upone  his  owne  raeit;  and 
that  prenteis  swa  takne  and  bookit,  sail  pay  of  booking  silver  (by  the  lies)  twenty 


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four  shillings  Scotts,  whilk  sail  be  clivydit  equallie  as  said  is.  And  farder  it  is 
agried  betuixt  the  saids  pairties,  that  it  sail  not  be  leissume  to  tbe  weivcrs  in 
Gorballis  to  give  or  pay  any  mair  or  greater  lies  to  ther  jurneymen  nor  is  payit  to 
the  journeymen  in  Glasgow  of  that  tread  be  the  freemen  burgesses  therof.  And  last 
the  saids  weivers  of  Gorballis  binds  and  obleidges  them  and  tlier  successouris  nowayes 
to  incrotch  upone  the  freedome  of  the  saids  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  liberties  belonging 
to  them ;  and  the  saids  weivers  in  Glasgow  oljlidges  them  not  to  wrong  the  saids 
weivers  in  Gorballis  in  ther  liberties,  bot  sail  defend  them  therintill  to  ther  uttermost. 
And  heirto  baith  the  saids  pairties  binds  and  oblidges  them  to  observe  keip  and 
fulfill  the  hail  premissis  ilk  ane  of  them  hinc  indc  to  uthers  in  all  tyme  heirefter. 
And  the  pairties  failziers  bindis  anil  oblidges  them  to  pay  to  the  pairties  keipers 
and  observers  of  the  premissis  or  willing  to  keip  and  observe  the  samyne  fourtie 
punds  Scotts  money  for  ilk  failzie  toties  qnotics  by  and  attour  fulfilling  of  the 
premissis.  And  for  the  mair  securitie,  haithe  the  saids  jiairtics  are  content  and 
consents  thir  presentis  be  insert  and  registrat  in  the  hie  court  hookis  of  justice, 
towne  court  hookis  of  Glasgow,  or  in  any  other  judicatourie  court  hookis  ordinar 
within  this  natioune  to  have  the  strenth  of  ane  act  and  decreit  of  any  of  the  judges 
therof  interponit  heirto,  that  letters  and  executoriallis  of  horneing  one  ane  simple 
charge  of  se.x  days  only  may  pas  heirupone  in  forme  as  efieirs ;  and  for  that  effect 
constitutis  thair 

procuratouris  Ac.  In  witnes  wherof  (writtin  be  dohne  Young,  wryter  in  Edinburgh) 
they  have  subscryveit  thir  presentis  with  ther  hands  day  yeir  and  place  foirsaids 
befoir  thir  witnessis  Johne  Patersone,  weiver  in  Glasgow,  Robert  Maxwell,  weiver 
ther,  Donald  M‘Gilchreist,  servitour  to  Willham  Yair,  towne  clerk  deput  of  Gla.sgow, 
and  the  said  Johne  Young. 

Signed  hy  David  Scot,  John  Anderson,  David  Hodgisyard,  Robert  AV^atsoune, 
Thomas  AA'est,  James  Scheillis,  Johne  Davidsoune,  Patricke  Bryce,  Johne  Kessne, 
Ard.  Glen,  Williame  Faconer,  and  Johne  Leis. 

(P.S).  AVe  John  Falconer,  deacon  of  the  weivers  of  Glasgow,  Michaell  AV'atsoune, 
Richard  Flaikfeild,  John  Clerk,  James  Glen,  James  Falconer,  Robt.  Nisbit,  John 
M‘Alester,  and  Andro  Lie,  weivers  in  Glasgow,  and  we  AV^illiam  Bogle,  John  Merschell 
elder,  John  Glen,  \Vm.  Gordoune,  John  Fleiming,  Archbald  Bar  elder,  Walter 
Livingstoun,  John  AA'alker,  John  Filip,  William  Andersonne,  Thomas  Ander.son,  John 
Montgomry,  Robt.  Gemle,  Patrik  Ritchie,  Thomas  Hill,  Hew  Duchell,  John  Merschell 
younger,  Alexander  Hamilton,  John  Cuming,  Johne  Scheill,  and  Thomas  Muir  with 
our  hands  at  the  pen,  becaus  we  cannot  wryte  ourselvis. 

I  Williame  Yair,  notar  publict  subscry ving  for  thir  persones  abovenamed  at  thair 
command  becaus  they  cannot  wrytt  as  they  affirmed. 

I  Thomas  Scheirer,  notar  publict  doe  subscryve  the  premissis  at  comand  of  the 
foirsaidis  persones  quho  cannot  wryt  witnessing  my  sign  and  subscription  manuall. 

Signed  Roberte  Maxwelle,  witness,  John  Petrsoune,  witnes,  Jo:  Young,  witnes, 
and  D.  M'Gilchrist  witnes. 


10:2  RELATIONS  AVITH  GORBALS  AND  BRIDGEND  AVEAVERS. 


There  are  some  supplementary  entries  closing  up  the  whole 
matter  satisfactorily : — 

11  Maij  1657. 

Tlie  said  day,  thair  was  producib  the  contract  past  hetuixt  tlie  calling  and  the 
weifers  of  (lorhallis,  with  ane  hook,  quhairin  is  contenit  the  dowhill  of  the  said 
contract,  and  all  wther  thingis  lies  hein  ])ayit  hetnixt  them,  and  quhairin  are  to  be 
insert  all  thingis  relaiting  to  the  Gorballis ;  and  qnhilkis  contract  and  buik  is  put  in 
the  box. 

27  jNlaij  1657. 

The  same  day,  the  dekine  with  Patrik  Bryce  and  Michaell  Watsone  prod  licit  ane 
com))t  of  some  money  they  had  receavit  pairtlie  from  the  collectour,  and  pairtlie  out 
of  the  box  sen  Candlemes  last,  and  that  for  bringing  to  pas  the  agriment  now  maid 
with  the  weiferis  in  Gorballis  they  chairgit  themseltis  with  the  sowme  of  ane  hundrethe 
twentie  three  pundis  j  s.  iiij  d.,  and  be  ane  cornpt  product,  red,  and  allowit  be  the 
liaill  maisteris  present,  they  have  debursit  thairintill  twa  hundrethe  nyntein  pundis, 
twelf  schillingis,  aught  penneis ;  swa  they  ar  superexpendit  the  sowme  of  four  scoir 
sextein  pundis  xj  s.  iiij  d.,  quhilk  is  appoyntit  to  be  payit  with  all  diligence;  and 
the  haill  maisteris  present  gave  the  honest-men,  the  comptaris,  grait  thankis  for  thair 
jiaines  in  bringing  that  mater  to  so  happie  and  wischitfor  clois. 

2  November  1657. 

Tlie  same  day,  it  was  ileclairit  be  the  dekine,  be  Patrik  Bryce  and  Johne 
Falconer  to  quhoum  the  mater  of  agriment  with  the  Gorballis  was  commitit  declairit 
that  they  war  compleitlie  payit  of  the  money  was  awin  to  them  relating  to  that 
mater  and  is  mentionat  in  the  act  of  the  dait  the  27  of  Maij  last  and  the  haill 
maisteris  present  dischargit  them  of  the  haill  moneyis  intrometit  with  he  them  anent 
that  mater,  declaring  the  haill  thairof  to  be  lawfullie  debursit,  conforme  to  the 
cornpt  gevin  in  and  now  revine. 

(8-2-1658) 

The  same  day,  the  oversmane  of  the  weiferis  in  Gorballis  and  his  assessouris 
producib  thair  book  conteaning  certane  actis  set  doun  for  the  weill  of  that  corpora- 
tioun.  They  war  all  fund  verie  fair  lawfull  and  honest  and  thairfoir  ratefeit  and 
approvine  be  the  dekin  and  his  maisteris,  ane  of  them  being  exceptit ;  qnhairby  it 
is  ordanit  that  on  of  the  hretherine  thair  in  Gorballis  of  the  weiferis  may  not  instruct 
ane  wther,  and  ordains  ane  wther  act  to  be  set  doun  for  anulling  of  that  act ; 
and  becaus  the  graitest  debait  and  contraversie  amongis  them  is  for  the  act  set  doun 
anent  the  maner  of  the  ingathering  of  thair  saidis  quarter  comptis,  tindis  the  said  act 
to  be  set  doun  most  agriable  to  conscience,  and  could  not  be  better  set  doun  if  it  war 
yit  to  do ;  and  thairfoir  the  same  is  approvine  with  the  rest  as  said  is. 

At  the  craftis  hospitall  the  14  day  of  Februarij  1690. 

The  quhilk  day . John  Gilchrist,  present  deacon  conveinner  and  Simon 

Tennant,  baillie  of  the  Gorhells,  and  John  MTlchrist,  present  deacon  with  his  maisteris 


RELATIONS  WITH  OORBALS  AND  BRIDGEND  WEAVERS.  103 


and  most  pairt  of  the  bretheren  of  the  said  calling  being  inett  in  the  said  hospitall 
annent  the  auditing  of  the  [collectouris]  compt,  and  after  auditing  therof,  haveing 
taken  to  ther  serious  considerations  the  abuse  done  heretofor  by  the  deacons  and  the 
inaisteris  of  the  said  calling  and  other  callings  within  this  burgh  ther  neadless  spending 
of  the  poors  goods  in  randering  of  visits  to  tlie  tradis  baillie  and  ileacon  conveinner 
yeailie  and  others,  such  as  seeking  concurrance  of  the  Gorbell  baillie  against  tlie 
weaveris  ther  annent  ther  (piarter  couiptis  yearlie,  the  skaitli  and  dammage  wlierof 
greatlie  redounding  to  tlie  poor  of  the  said  calling.  And  for  jireventing  hereafter 
the  forsaid  spending,  the  said  deacon  conveinner  ami  baillie  of  Gorbells  with  consent 
of  the  said  deacon,  inaisteris,  and  remanent  bretheren  of  the  said  calling  lies  statut 
and  ordaiiined  likeas  they  hereby  statuts  and  ordaines  in  all  tyme  comeing  after  the 
dait  hereof,  that  noe  deacon  nor  inaisteris  shall  have  libertie  nor  pouer  to  spend  any 
of  the  poors  means  at  any  of  the  forsaidis  wisits,  but  discharges  the  same,  except 
what  thej^  shall  spend  of  ther  oun  money  allenderlie.  And  whosoever  shall  be  found 
guiltie  herafter  in  committing  any  of  the  forsaidis  faultis,  shall  not  onlie  be  lyable 
to  make  up  vvhat  they  shall  happen  to  spend  of  the  poors  goods,  but  also  shall  be 
hereby  obleidged  by  this  present  act  to  make  payement  for  the  use  of  the  poor  the 
soume  of  ten  pounds  attour  what  they  shall  be  found  in  spending  as  .said  is.  And 
this  they  ordaine  to  stand  as  ane  jierpetuall  act  in  all  tyme  comeing. 

Signed  R.  FYNNISONE.,  clerk 

The  “mutual  love  and  correspondence”  between  the  weavers  on 
each  .side  of  the  river  had  been  disturbed  in  coui'se  of  time  by  the 
southerners  accepting  journeymen  at  lower  entrance  fees  than  the 
agreement  of  1657  bore,  and  it  was  found  necessary  to  call  in  the 
Magistrates  and  Council  of  Glasgow  as  judges  between  the  parties. 
Their  judgment,  given  below,  seems  to  have  settled  matters  satisfactorily, 
as  there  is  no  record  of  any  further  differences: — 

Extract  Act  of  the  Magistrates  and  Council  of  Glasgow, 
dated  3  October  1692,  as  to  certain  privileges  in  the 
Contract  and  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of 
Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals,  dated  10  April 
1657. 

Att  Glasgow  the  thrid  day  of  October 
jiii  vj®  nyntie  and  two  yeares,— 

The  whilk  day  the  proveist,  baillies  and  counsell  of  the  said  burgh  being 
conveened. — Anent  the  petition  given  in  to  them  be  John  Loch,  late  deacon  of  the 
Incorporation  of  the  Weivers  of  the  said  burgh,  for  himselfe  with  advyce  and 
concurrance  of  the  masters  and  haill  remanent  members  of  the  said  Incorporation, — 
Mentioning  that  where  be  ane  transaction  between  the  deacon,  masters,  and  remanent 


104  EELATIONS  WITH  GOEBALS  AND  BEIDGEND  WEAVEES. 


members  of  tlie  Iiicorjioration  of  weivers  of  the  samen  bnrgli  on  the  ane  part,  and 
the  weivers  of  the  (forballis  on  the  other  part  dated  tlie  tenth  day  of  Apryll 
jni  vj<=  (iftie  sevin  yeares,  tlie  saids  weivers  in  Gorballs  in  consideration  and 
contemplation  of  diverse  and  siindrie  priviledges  and  liberties  granted  to  them  be  the 
said  Incorporation  of  the  vveivers  of  Glasgow  becam  bonnd  and  obleidged  that  they 
should  not  suffer  any  stranger  weivers  to  settle  themselves  within  the  said  jurisdiction 
of  the  regalitie  of  Gorballs,  or  to  set  up  any  workhouse  or  loom  without  the  speciall 
advyce  and  consent  of  the  deacon  and  six  of  the  masters  of  the  Incorporation  of 
weivers  of  the  saiil  burgh  of  Glasgow,  and  the  oversman  of  the  weivers  of  Gorballs 
and  six  of  his  assessors  for  payment  of  the  soume  of  fourtie  merks  Scots  money  for 
his  upset  les  or  more.  Item, — ilk  jirenteis  takeing  up  his  trade  and  working  at  his 
oune  hand  paying  the  soume  of  sixtein  punds  money  les  or  more.  Item,  ilk  freemans 
sone  or  any  that  niaries  ane  freemans  daughter  paying  the  soume  of  eight  pund 
Scots  monej'  les  or  more  as  should  be  thought  good  in  maner  foresaid ;  and  all  of 
them  were  to  be  booked  in  a  book  which  was  to  be  keeped  be  the  weivers  of  the 
burgh  of  Glasgow,  and  the  respective  compositiones  abovewrittin  to  be  payed  be  the 
saids  intrants  was  to  be  eiiuallie  divydit  between  the  poor  of  the  weivers  of  Glasgow 
and  the  jioor  of  the  weivers  of  Gorballs ;  as  also  be  the  said  agreement  they  are 
lyable  for  twentie  shilling  yearlie  for  ilk  loom,  to  be  payed  quarterlie  at  the  four 
quarters  of  the  year  to  be  applyed  to  the  poor  of  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  without 
prejudice  to  the  weivers  of  Gorballs  to  asstrict  themselves  in  some  small  thing  to  be 
payed  to  their  oune  poor  in  Gorballs.  Likeas  be  the  said  agreement  it  was  agreed 
upon  between  the  saids  parties,  that  it  should  be  leisom  and  lawfull  to  every  one 
of  the  saids  freemen  weivers  in  Gorballs  to  take  ane  prenteis  ilk  four  yeares  and 
should  be  bound  for  fyve  yeares,  provided  that  the  saids  weivers  iu  Gorballs  should  not 
give  more  to  their  journeymen  prentises  then  what  was  usewallie  payed  be  the  freemen 
weiveris  of  Gla.sgow  to  their  journeymen,  that  nane  of  them  might  be  prejudicial!  to 
one  another  in  the  point  of  their  servants  fees ;  and  in  regaird  at  the  tyme  of  the 
said  transaction  and  agreement  it  was  not  customarie  for  the  weivers  in  Gorballis  to 
have  or  intertaine  any  journeymen  hot  what  had  bein  their  oune  prentises.  There 
was  no  condition  nor  liquidation  made  be  the  said  agreement  for  the  booking  money 
of  strangers  journeymen  which  the  saids  weivers  in  Gorballis  have  introduced  and 
made  practicable  sensyne  and  daylie  receave  journeymen  strangers  to  them  and  take 
only  from  them  twentie  or  threttie  shilling  of  booking  money;  Whereas  the  saids 
petitioners  be  their  Chartor  are  limited  and  restricted  to  the  soume  of  three  pund 
ten  shilling  eight  pennies  Scots  money  for  each  journeymans  booking,  whereby  the 
j)etitioners  are  extreamlie  prejudged  by  their  admitting  journeymen  at  ane  easier 
rate  then  the  petitioners  can  doe  be  their  said  Chartor,  and  is  ane  express  trans¬ 
gression  of  the  said  Contract  of  Agreement,  which  obleidges  aither  partie  to  doe  nae 
fact  nor  deed  prejudicial!  to  one  anothers  priviledges.  Likeas  the  petitioners  humblie 
presumed  that  since  the  liberties  and  privileilges  granted  be  the  weivers  of  the  burgh 
of  Glasgow  to  the  weivers  of  Gorballs  was  in  consideration  of  their  makeing 
payment  to  the  poor  of  the  Incorporation  of  the  Weivers  of  Glasgow  of  the  just  and 
equall  halfe  of  all  compositiones  and  bookeing  money,  and  that  the  custome  now 


KELATIOXS  WITH  HOKBALS  AND  BKIDGEND  WEAVERS.  105 


introduced  of  receaving  of  .strangers  journeyinen  being  a  .supervenient  priviledge  wliicli 
could  not  fall  under  the  consideration  of  the  parties  transacteris  being  then  iinprac. 
ticable. — That  tlierefor  the  saids  vveivers  of  the  tlorballs  ought  not  only  to  be  ordained 
not  to  receave  any  stranger  journeymen  hot  such  as  i)ayed  the  equivalent  booking 
money  with  tlie  petitioners  journeymen  fur  preventing  a  monopolie,  but  siclike  ought 
and  should  be  decerned  and  ordained  to  make  [)ayment  to  the  petitioners  of  the  just 
and  equall  halfe  of  the  said  booking  money,  and  ordaine  them  to  make  payment  of 
the  said  twentie  shilling  for  each  loom  at  tlie  crafts  liospitall  of  Gla.sgow  quarterlie 
conforme  to  the  said  agreement,  as  being  the  umloubted  ground  and  reason  for  wliich 
the  weivers  of  the  burgh  of  Glasgow  did  indulge  and  priviledge  the  weiveris  of  the 
Gorballs  with  the  liberties  contained  in  the  said  agreement. — Craveaml  therefor  the 
saids  proveist  baillies  and  counsell  to  lake  the  premissis  to  their  serious  consideration 
and  j)revent  the  ]»etitioners  priviledges  from  being  invadit  or  violat  ami  the  meanes 
of  their  i)0(ir  from  being  unsiqiplied  or  apj)ro[>riat  to  uthers  then  the  designed  uses, 
as  the  said  petition  beares. — Whilk  jietition  and  contract  of  agreement  past  made 
and  endit  betuixt  the  saiils  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  weivers  in  Gorballs  of  the  date 
abovespecifeit,  with  the  ratification  therof  be  the  magistrats  and  tonne  counsell  of  the 
said  burgh  dated  the  ellevinth  day  of  the  said  moneth  of  Aju'yll  j"'  vj'’  tiftie  sevin 
yeares  foresaid,  and  the  report  of  the  proveist,  baillie  Tennent,  dohn  Andersone,  late 
proveist,  dean  of  gild,  <leacon  conveener,  and  I’eter  Corbet,  baillie  of  (Torballis  (of  the 
comoning  that  uas  betuixt  the  saids  weiveris  of  Glasgow  and  the  weivers  in  Gorballs) 
who  were  apiHjinted  to  hear  both  jiarties  ancnt  the  premissis,  being  tacken  to  the  saids 
])roveist,  baillies,  and  counsell  their  consideration,  and  after  mature  advyce  and  delibera¬ 
tion  had  be  them  theraneiit,  they  of  new  againe  for  them  and  their  successors  in  oftice 
have  ratitieil  allowed  and  approvine,  and  hereby  allowes,  ratilics  and  approves  of  the  said 
Contract  past  betuixt  the  saids  weivers  of  tllasgow  and  weivers  in  Gorballs,  and  declares 
this  general  ratibcation  to  be  alse  valide  as  if  the  samen  were  verbatim  hereintill  insert ; 
And  in  respect  after  peruseall  of  the  said  Contract,  they  find  it  hath  been  entered 
into  be  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  the  weivers  in  Gorballs  represented  in  that 
Contract  by  severall  of  their  oune  number  as  haveing  full  jioxver  warrand  and 
commission  from  the  haill  remanent  weivers  in  Gorballs,  wherein  there  is  concedit  to 
the  saids  weivers  in  Gorballs  by  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  power  to  them  to  choise 
ane  oversman  and  assessors  who  are  to  have  the  government  and  oversight  of  the 
Aveivcrs  within  their  oune  incorporation,  who  have  obleidged  themselves  and  their 
successors  in  oflice,  that  every  person  weiver  in  Gorballs  that  keepes  ane  or  mae 
loonies,  or  workhouse  ther  sail  pay  in  consideration  of  their  freedome  granted  be  the 
said  Contract  tw'entie  shilling  Scots  for  ilk  loom  to  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  their 
successouris  in  office  yearlie  and  quarterlie  in  all  tyme  therafter  as  is  at  more  lenth 
contained  in  the  said  Contract.  As  also  considering  that  it  was  not  to  be  leisoni 
to  the  weiveris  in  Gorballis  to  give  or  pay  any  more  or  greater  fies  to  their  journeymen 
nor  is  payed  to  the  journeymen  in  Glasgow  of  that  trade  by  freemen  and  burgesses 
therof,  by  which  cause,  and  severall  other  articles  contained  in  the  said  Contract,  it 
clearlie  appeares  that  it  was  the  designe  of  both  parties  contractors  that  nothing 
.should  be  done  that  might  be  hurtfull  or  prejudicial!  to  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  by 


O 


106  RELATIONS  WITH  GORBALS  AND  BRIDGEND  WEAVERS. 


intiseing  or  drawing  away  servants  or  journeymen  from  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  by 
giveing  them  greater  encouragement  nor  what  is  given  them  be  the  weivers  of 
Glasgow.  And  seing  the  weivers  in  Gorballs  receave  journeymen  for  payment  onlie 
of  twentie  or  threttie  shilling  of  booking  money,  which  is  fare  les  then  what 
the  weivers  of  Glasgow  are  limited  and  restricted  to  be  their  charter,  which  is 
three  pund  ten  sliilling  eiglit  pennies  for  their  bookeing,  by  which  encouragement  the 
weivers  in  Gorballis  draw  away  and  intise  the  greatest  part  of  the  journeymen  alse 
effectuallie  as  if  they  did  pay  more  or  greater  ties  to  the  said  journeymen,  which  is 
contrare  to  the  designe  and  intent  of  the  saids  parties  contracteris.  And  likewayes 
seing  at  the  tynie  of  the  said  Contract,  tlie  weiveris  in  Gorballis  were  not  in  use  to 
have  any  journeymen,  and  that  what  priviledges  was  granted  to  the  saids  weivers  in 
Gorballis  they  did  acknowledge  it  to  be  from  the  good  will  favour  and  tollerance  of 
the  saids  weiveris  of  Glasgow,  and  ane  dispensing  wdth  what  right  they  had  granted 
them  be  the  156  act  of  King  James  the  6th  parliament  12,  intituled  exercise  of 
crafts  within  suburbs  adjacent  to  burrowes  is  forbidden.  Therefore  the  saids  proveist 
baillies  and  counsell  as  superiors  and  haveing  power  to  determine  and  decyde  in  all 
contraversies  that  may  arise  betuixt  the  saids  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  weivers  in 
Gorballs,  have  inacted,  and  hereby  inacts,  statutes  and  ordaines  the  oversman  and 
assessouris  of  the  weivers  of  Gorballs  to  collect  and  inbring  to  the  deacon  and 
collector  of  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  the  twentie  shilling  for  ilk  loom  to  be  payed  as 
aforesaid  be  the  said  Contract.  And  likewayes  that  they  shall  exact  no  less  then 
three  pund  ten  shilling  eight  pennies  of  bookeing  money  from  everie  journeyman 
admitted  be  them,  and  that  the  samen  shall  be  divydit  betuixt  the  saids  weivers  of 
Glasgow  and  w'eivers  in  Gorballs  in  the  same  maner  and  way  as  the  other  fees 
contained  in  the  said  Contract  are  to  be  divydit.  And  appoints  the  baillie  of 
Gorballis  and  his  successouris  in  office  to  cause  the  saids  fynes  to  be  payed  to  the 
collector  of  the  weivers  of  Glasgow  and  his  succes-souris  for  the  use  abovementioned, 
be  the  saids  weivers  in  Gorballis  summarlie  without  any  persute  or  process  of  law, 
upon  application  or  complaint  to  be  made  be  the  said  collector  or  his  foresaids  against 
the  saids  weiveris  in  Gorballis  who  shall  refuse  and  give  obedience  and  not  pay  the 
samen.  And  ordaines  the  Clerk  to  give  out  Extracts  heirof.  — Extractum. 


(Signed)  G.  ANDERSONE. 


XII. 


RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS 

WEAVERS. 

Altliougli  from  its  present  position,  in  tlie  lieart  of  tlie  city,  one 
iniglit  expect  that  Calton  was  identified  with  Glasgow  at  an  earlier 
date  than  Gorbals,  yet  it  was  a  good  century  later  than  the  date 
of  the  first  agreement  with  Gorbals  before  there  was  a  sufficiently 
large  population  in  Calton  to  make  a  working  arrangement  necessary. 
The  preliminary  of  a  general  agreement  is  found  in  a  minute  between 
an  individual  living  in  Blackfaulds  and  the  Deacon  and  Collector,  as 
follows : — 

Att  Glasgow  the  nyiitein  day  of  Octoher  j"'  vij*^  and  ten  yeiris,  it  is  contracted 
and  agjtreed  lietwixt  .James  Boyll  and  .John  liankin,  present  deacon  and  collector  of 
the  weaveris  in  Glasgow  for  themselves  and  in  name  of  the  maisteris  and  memlieris 
of  the  s.aid  corporatione  on  the  <ane  pairt,  and  William  Miller,  weaver  in  Blackfanllis 
on  the  other  jiairt,  in  maner  form  and  to  the  eliect  following: — That  is  to  say  the 
said  deacon  and  collector  heirhy  bindis  and  ohleidges  them  and  thair  succc.ssores  in 
office  to  permitt  the  said  William  Miller  to  outtake  and  intake  ■work,  and  not  to 
bring  out  work  nor  in  work  except  for  his  oun  workhous  out  of  the  toun  of  Glasgow, 
and  that  without  ony  trobell  or  inollestatione  (juhatsomever ;  for  the  quhilkis  premises 
the  -said  M’illiani  Miller  heirhy  bindis  and  ohleidges  him  his  aires  &c.  to  content  and 
pay  to  the  saidis  deacon  and  collector  or  to  ther  successores  in  office  the  sume  of 
ten  shilling  Scottis  (piartcrlie  and  ilk  (piarter  for  ilk  loom  during  his  abood  in  the 
said  Blackfaulis  for  ilk  loom  as  s.aid  is.  And  in  caice  it  shall  happen  the  said 
William  Miller  nott  to  make  thankfull  payment  of  the  forsaid  ten  shilling  Scotis 
quarterlie,  in  that  caice  he  obleiilges  him  to  p<ay  to  the  deacon  and  collector  forsaid 
the  sume  of  tweiitie  shilling  Scr)ttis  in  caice  of  failzie  for  each  loom,  and  sua  furth 
to  continow ;  consenting  thir  presentis  be  registrat  in  the  bookis  of  counsell  and 
sesiane  or  ony  otheris,  that  letteris  of  horning  on  six  dayes  anti  otheris  may 
heirupon  pass,  and  constitutes  Procuratouris, 

writtiu  be  Thomas  Falconer  younger,  writter  in  Glasgow  and  subscrivit  at  day  year 
and  place  foresaidis  before  thir  witneses  Robert  Loch,  weaver  in  Glasgow,  and  the 
said  Thomas  Falconer. 

(Signed)  JAMES  BOYLL. 

Robert  Loch,  Wittnes  JOHN  RANKIN. 

Thos.  Falconer,  Witnes.  WILLIE  AM  MILLEAR. 


108  RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS. 


In  the  3^ear  1725  the  Magistrates  and  Council  and  the  Trades’ 
House  conjointly,  three-fourths  interest  for  the  Council  and  one-fourth 
for  the  Trades’  House,  bought  the  lands  of  Calton  and  Blackfaulds 
from  John  Walkinshaw  of  Barrowtield,  and  resold  them  in  1731  to 
John  On-,  b}"  whom  they  were  laid  out  for  feuing.  On  this  purchase 
being  made  b}^  the  Council  a  full  agi’eement  was  made  with  the 
large  colony  of  weavers  to  whom  tlie  Council  were  now  superiors. 
This  agreement  was  as  follows: — - 


Contract  and  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of 
Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  of  Calton  or  Blackfauld, 
dated  23  February  1725. 

Att  Glasgow,  tlie  tiienty  third  day  of  February,  one  thousand  seven  liundred 
and  tuentj'  lo'e  yeaiis  It  is  contracted  ajjpointed  agreed  and  tinaly  ended  betwixt 
the  persons  partys  afternanied.  They  are  to  say  John  Lang  j)resent  deacon  and  William 
Bryson,  late  deacon  anrl  James  Bogle,  John  Robei’tson,  Thomas  Cochran,  John 
Hamilton,  James  Davidson,  William  Aiken,  John  Gibson,  John  tlray,  William  Watson, 
youngest,  Robert  Ficken  William  Cuninghame  A'c.  (blank)  present  Masters  and 
Robert  iMorthland,  Collector  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weaveris  of  Glasgow  and  Robert 
Wood,  William  Ritchie,  John  M‘Gilchrist,  Robert  Loch  and  James  Petegrew,  late 
Deacons,  William  Watson  elder,  John  Warden,  James  Lang  and  John  L  rie  brethren 
of  the  said  craft  in  name  of  and  taken  burden  upon  them  for  the  haill  other 
brethren  and  memberis  of  the  said  craft  and  their  siiccessoris  weaveris  ami  burgessess 
of  the  said  burgh  of  Glasgow  on  the  one  part,  and  John  Freeland,  James  Tajdor, 
John  Brooks,  William  Millar,  Archibald  Provan,  M'illiani  Wilson,  William  Parland, 
Walter  Buchanan,  William  Buchanan,  John  Paterson,  Robert  Jamison,  Robert  Fleiming, 
James  Dyckis,  Alexander  Kirkland,  John  Durie,  William  Dickson,  Thomas  M‘Kean, 
James  Whittan,  John  Allason,  James  Broun,  M’illiam  and  John  Drews,  Andrew  Scott, 
James  M'Kechnie,  John  Paterson,  David  Selckrig,  John  Buchanan,  Robert  Adam,  John 
Duncan,  .John  Henderson,  John  Aikman,  James  Hamiltoun,  James  Dougal,  Walter 
Arroll,  Andrew  Menzies,  James  Waker,  Robert  Howat,  David  Low,  James  Hogg, 

Robert  Maxwell,  Robert  Clerk,  Samwel  MTvenzie,  George  Robertson,  James  Clark, 

John  MTvean,  Daniel  MTvechnie,  James  Pater.son,  Edward  Graham,  Gilbart  Norie, 
.fames  Blackburn,  Walter  Muir  and  .John  Whyt  all  weaveris,  indwelleris  in  the 
Caltoun  of  Glasgow,  adjacent  to  the  said  burgh,  and  one  of  the  suburbs  thereof  now 
belonging  to  and  holding  of  the  magistratis,  toun  councill  and  community  of  the 
burgh  of  Glasgow  now  superioris  and  proprietoires  of  the  Caltoun  and  the  lands  of 
Blackfauldis  and  otheris  adjacent  lands  lately  belonging  to  John  Walkinshaw  of 
Burrowfeild  for  themselves  and  in  name  of  and  takeing  burden  upon  them  for  the 

haill  remanent  weaveris  now  indwelleris  in  Caltoun,  and  Blackfauldis  on  the  other 

part,  in  manner,  form,  and  to  the  effect  following: —That  is  to  say,  Whereas  by  the 


RELATIONS  WITH  C ALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS.  109 


154  act  of  the  12th  parliament  of  King  James  tlie  6th  tlie  exercise  of  craftis  in 
suljiirhs  adjacent  to  royal  harrows  as  heing  hnrtfnll  to  the  leiges  for  the  insntliciency 
of  the  work  and  as  damnifeing  free  craftisiaeii  resident  within  harrows  who  hear 
great  part  of  the  charges  of  the  harghs  and  for  otlier  reasons  thereinmentioned  is 
forhidden  and  the  Provost  and  Baillies  of  the  said  harrows  are  allowed  to  intromett 
with  the  work  so  working  to  whomsoever  the  materialis  belong  and  to  esclieat  :  the 
same  to  he  applyed  to  the  common  works  of  the  hargh  next  adjacent  to  tlie  said 
saharhs,  which  act  is  also  ratified  hy  several  actis  of  jiarliament  since  made.  And 
whereas  the  said  partys  are  most  sensihle  that  not  only  many  of  the  leiges  are 
damnified  in  their  work  made  hy  such  as  preteml  to  he  craftismen  wlio  are  neither 
capable  nor  has  good  worklooms  fitt  for  the  work  they  andertake,  and  not  being 
ander  any  particular  government  regulation  or  inspection  of  proiier  judges  they  make 
their  work  in  sach  sort  as  has  brought  the  manufactorys  of  cloath  in  this  coantery 
into  very  much  discredit  of  late  and  given  occasion  to  our  iieighliouris  in  some  peices 
of  work  to  outdo  as  which  must  tend  to  the  mine  of  our  manufactories  and 
imjioverishing  our  countery  unless  remead  he  provided  for  preventing  which  evils  and 
attaining  the  end  and  design  of  which  laws  and  for  mantaining  mutual  love  and  good 
neighbourhood  betwixt  the  weaveris  of  the  said  burgh  of  Glasgow  and  the  weaveris  of 
Caltoun  and  Blackfaaldis,  the  said  partys  fidlowing  the  example  of  other  w'eel  governed  parts 
in  the  like  case  as  amongest  the  weaveris  of  Edinburgh,  We.st|)ort  and  Potteraw' ;  and  also 
following  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  said  Provost  Baillies  and  councill  of  Glasgow, — 
Have  agreed  to  the  following  articles  and  conditionis  to  he  keep’d  and  ohseiwed  by  the  said 
w’eaveris  of  Glasgow  and  their  successoris  freemen  of  the  saitl  Incorporation,  and  by  the 
.said  weareris  now'  indw'elleris  in  the  said  lands  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauhlis,  and  liy  the 

weaveris  duelling  in  the  said  lands  in  all  time  and  ages  succeeding,  vizt. — In  the 

first  itis  declared  by  the  said  w’eaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauhlis  subscreibeing  for 
themselves  ami  in  name  of  and  acting  and  takeing  burden  on  them  for  the  haill 
remanent  weaveris  iuhabitantis  of  said  bounds  now  and  in  all  time  comeing  that 
w’hatever  freedom  tollance  and  liberty  they  have  for  exerciseiug  their  calling  in  the 
said  bounds  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauhlis,  ami  in  takeing  and  bringing  work  to  and 
from  the  burgh  of  Glasgow',  is  given  and  granted  to  them  by  ami  holden  and  to  be 
held  by  them  oH'  and  from  the  Incor|)oration  of  Weaveris  in  the  saitl  burgh  of 
tJlasgow.  Secomlly  itis  agreed  and  mutually  condescended  upon  betwuxt  the  saids 
partys,  that  the  said  w'eaveris  in  Caltoun  and  Blackfauhlis  present  and  to  come  shall 
have  liberty  to  have  ane  ovei'sman  of  their  own  number  to  be  chosen  yearly  in  this 
manner,  vizt :  The  said  weaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauhlis  shall  on  the  first  Fryday 
of  May  yearly  in  all  time  comeing,  elect  and  present  three  of  the  worthyest  and 
most  qualified  of  their  number  on  lyte  to  the  deacorr  of  the  w'eaveris  of  Glasgow 

and  his  rnasteris  of  craft  in  the  craftis  hospital  within  the  burgh  of  Glasgow',  to  the 

effect  they  may  ellect  and  return  one  of  the  said  lyte  to  be  overisman  of  the  said 
W’eaveris  in  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis  for  the  year  insueing,  w'ho  being  elected  shall 
give  his  oath  cU  fideli,  and  the  said  overisman  thereafter  shall,  with  the  remanent 
weaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis  who  shall  be  entered  and  inrolled  have  power 
to  chose  six  of  their  number  to  be  assessoris  to  the  said  overisman — beginning  .said 


110  RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS. 


elections  in  IMay  next ;  wliicli  overisinan  and  assessoris  shall  have  power  to  judge  in 
all  inatteris  hetwixt  hrothcr  and  brother  relating  to  the  calling  allennerly,  and  as  to 
sulliciency  and  insutlicioncy  of  work  in  said  craft  wrought  within  the  hounds  foresaid, 
and  of  the  daninages  sustaind  hy  the  leiges  through  spoiling  their  work  or  not 

working  the  same  in  the  time  agreed  >ipon  apj)lication  of  the  leiges  injured ;  the 

said  weaveris  in  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis  (being  allways  subject  to  the  magistratis 
and  couneill  of  Glasgow,  the  haillis  if  any  shall  he  named  within  the  bounds, 
according  as  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  are  subject  to  the  magistratis  of  Glasgow) ;  and 
either  party  disagreeing  or  being  dissatisfied  with  the  sentence  of  the  said  overisman 
and  assessoris  haveing  liberty  to  apeal  to  the  deacon  and  masteris  of  the  weaveris 
of  tilasgow,  who,  in  that  case  shall  have  power  to  deside  and  determin  thereintill. 
Item,  the  said  weaveris  of  Glasgow  being  satisfied  as  to  the  qualiticationis  of  the 
weaveris  before  named  now  residentis  in  Caltoun  and  their  capacitys  to  serve  his 

Majestys  leiges,  iloe  allow  them  to  exercise  their  trade  in  said  hounds  in  time  comeing 

subject  allways  to  the  terms  and  conditions  of  tliis  present  Contract  and  Agreement, 
and  shall  inroll  them  for  the  said  liberty  and  freidom  in  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis 
in  a  hook  to  ho  keep’d  by  the  said  weaveris  of  Glasgow  for  that  effect,  and  for  the 
purjioses  aftermentioned,  and  in  time  comeing  no  person  shall  he  allowed  to  sett  up 
a  workhouse  or  loomis  within  the  liounds  foresaid  to  work  weaveris  work  untill  first 
they  give  essay  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  deacon  of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  and  six 
of  his  imasteris  and  to  the  overisman  of  the  said  weaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis 
ami  his  six  assessoris  or  the  plurality  of  them  of  his  or  their  capacity  in  said  art 
and  craft  sulliciently  to  serve  the  leigis  and  he  inrolled  in  the  foresaid  hookis  wherein 
also  all  apprentices  and  servantis  taken  within  the  said  hounds  are  to  he  inrolled  for 
the  liherty  of  which  upsett  and  inrollment  and  toward  raising  a  fund  for  mentainance 
of  i)oor  and  decayed  brethren  of  the  said  calling  and  their  widows  and  orphantis,  and 
for  defraying  the  common  affairis  of  the  said  craftis  ;  the  following  com])osition  or  fynes 
shali  he  payed  (over  and  beside  the  clerk  and  officeris  fees  to  he  regulated  according 
as  the  weaveris  of  Gorhallis  pay)  hy  all  intrant  freemen  jurneymen  servantis  and 
apprentices  before  tliey  shall  he  allowed  hy  the  said  weaveris  of  Caltoun  and 
Blackfauldis  or  their  successoris  to  work  witliin  the  said  hounds,  vizt. , — Each  stranger 
that  has  not  his  residence  within  the  said  hounds  at  this  time  or  at  least  lies  hired 
houses  therein  against  Whittsiinday  next  tuenty  inerkis  Scotis  money  less  or  more 
as  shall  he  thought  litt  and  determined  by  the  deacon  of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow 
and  any  six  of  his  masteris  to  he  called  hy  the  deacon,  and  hy  the  overisman  of 
the  weaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis  and  his  six  assessoris,  or  the  plurality  of 
the  said  fourteen  [lersons.  Item,  eacli  apprentice  serveing  within  the  said  hounds  and 
entreing  freeman  ten  pounds  Scotis  less  or  more  and  each  freemanis  son  or  son  in  law, 
six  pound  Scotis  less  or  more  to  be  determined  in  same  manner  as  the  strangeris ; 
and  for  the  hooking  of  each  apprentice,  tuenty  four  shilling  Scotis ;  and  which  com- 
positionis  or  fynes  shall  he  equally  divided  hetwixt  the  two  Collectoris  for  the  behalf 
of  the  poor  brethren  of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow,  and  within  the  bounds  foresaid  of 
Caltoun  and  Blackfaulds  and  their  widows  and  orphanis.  Item,  The  said  respective 
weaveris  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfaulds  and  their  successoris  weavers,  inhabitantis  within 


RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  .iNI)  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS.  Ill 


the  said  hounds  in  all  time  conieing  after  Candleniass  last  shall  he  hound  and  ohlige<l 
for  tlie  foresaid  liberty  and  freedom  to  make  payment  to  the  wea\eris  of  (Glasgow  or 
to  their  collector  for  the  time  for  the  behove  of  the  poor  of  the  Incorporation  of 
Weaveris  in  Glasgow  of  twenty  shilling  Scotis  yearly  and  so  proportionally  for  ilk 
loom  in  their  several  houses  and  workhouses  within  the  said  hounds  of  Caltoun  and 
Blackfanldis  according  as  the  said  loom  shall  he  listed  hy  any  tno  of  the  sworn 
masteris  of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  from  time  to  time  as  they  think  litt,  and  that 
at  the  tennis  follo\\ing  vizt.  — Whittsunday,  Lamhmass,  Martinemass  ami  Candleniass 
by  equal  portions  with  six  shilling  Scotis  of  penalty  and  expences  hy  each  of  them 
that  failzie  as  oft  as  they  shall  suffer  themselves  to  he  charged  for  any  of  the  said 
quarterlie  p.aymentis ;  jirovideing  allways  that  before  giveing  any  such  charge,  the 
collector  of  the  weaveris  in  Glasgow  with  tuo  of  the  masteris  of  said  Incorjioration 
shall  fix  a  diet  for  receiveing  the  said  quarterly  paymentis  in  some  place  or  other 
within  the  said  lands  of  Caltoun  and  lllackfauldis  to  which  the  o\  erisman  there  being 
acquainted  thereof  the  night  before  shall  he  obliged  by  his  otHccr  to  have  all  the 
weaveris  in  Caltoun  and  lllackfauldis  cited  ;  and  they  beitig  either  cited  thereto  by 
the  othcer  in  Caltoun  or  by  the  olHcer  of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  shall  be  obliged 
to  send  their  said  several  quarterly  payments  or  to  attend  personally  and  j)ay  them. 
And  but  prejudice  to  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  to  charge  the  said  weaveris  of  Caltoun 

and  lllackfauldis  for  any  loomis  they  shall  have  more  then  shall  be  listed  and  to 

prove  the  same  by  their  oathis.  But  prejudice  allso  to  the  said  weaveris  in  Caltoun 
and  Blackfauldis  by  their  oun  consent  and  statute  to  impose  such  a  small  fyne  on 

themselves  yearly  or  quarterly  as  shall  by  them  be  thought  neccessary  for  supplying 

anil  mantaining  their  [loor.  And  the  saids  partys  do  further  agree  that  intrantis  shall 
before  admitting  them  to  essay  be  oldiged  to  consign  in  the  hands  of  the  deacon 
of  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  the  following  sumis  of  essay  money,  vizt. — each  stranger 
fourty  shilling  Scotis,  each  freemans  son  or  son-in-law  or  apprentice  serveing  within 
said  bounds,  one  pound  ten  sbillings  Scotis  money  :  and  that  it  shall  not  be  lessum 
or  lawfull  to  the  said  weaveris  in  Caltoun  or  Blackfauldis  to  take  ane  apjirentice  for 
less  time  then  five  yearis,  or  to  take  any  apprentices  but  house  apprentises  to  bo 
mantained  in  their  oun  familly,  and  that  they  shall  not  give  more  wages  or  byre 
to  servantis  or  jurneymen  then  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow  are  or  shall  be  allowed  to 

do  by  the  actis  and  statutes  of  their  Incorporation.  And  the  said  weaveris  of 

Glasgow'  oblige  them  to  stand  by  and  defend  the  said  weaveris  in  Caltoun  and 
Blackfaulds  conforming  and  agreeing  hereunto  in  the  possession  and  exercise  of 

the  freedom  and  privilege  hereby  granted,  to  the  outmost  of  their  power.  And  in 

case  of  any  differance  arriseing  betwdxt  the  said  partys  hereafter,  they  shall  hereby 
declare  the  magistratis  and  tovrn  councill  of  Glasgow  or  their  baillies  in  the  saids 
lands  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauldis  if  they  are  or  shall  be  erected  into  a  barrony  to 
be  judges  thereof  in  the  first  instance  and  oblige  them  to  bring  the  said  differances 
first  before  them  or  their  said  baillies ;  and  that  they  shall  not  intent  or  prosecute 
any  process  thereanent  untill  the  same  be  first  insisted  in  before  the  saids  magistratis 
and  councill  or  their  said  baillies.  And  both  partys  oblige  them  and  each  of  them 
and  their  successoris  foresaid  him  inde  respective  to  fullfill  and  perform  their  respective 


112  RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS. 


jiartis  of  the  premisses  to  otheris  under  the  pain  of  fourty  poundis  Scotis  money  of 
]ienalty  to  he  payed  by  each  party  failzier  or  contraveener  ioties  qnotics  to  the  observer 
or  w  illing  to  observe  attour  performance ;  and  for  the  iiiore  security  the  sahl  partys 
consent  to  the  registration  hereof,  with  the  several  listings  foresaid  of  the  loomis  to  he 
made  and  taken  from  time  to  time,  in  the  hookis  of  councill  and  session  or  any 
otheris  competent,  that  letterLs  ami  executorial lis  of  homing  on  fifteen  days  or  otheris 
needful  may  thereon  be  direct,  and  for  that  end  constitute. 

[h’ocuratoris  In  witness  whereof  these  presentis  written  by  Moses  Buchanan, 

servitor  to  John  Robertson,  writer  in  (llasgow  upon  stampted  paper  on  this  and  the 
tuo  aliove  sheetis  with  ane  other  double  hereof  are  suhscrived  by  the  said  partys  at 
place  day  moneth  and  year  foresaid  before  these  witnesses  Robert  Robertson  younger, 
maltman  in  Glasgow',  Alexander  Dunlop,  Wright  there,  Daniel  Campltell,  servitor  to 
the  said  Alexander  Dunlop  and  the  said  Moses  Buchanan,  the  joyning  of  the  sheetis 
being  signed  by  the  said  John  Lang  and  John  Fryland  in  name  and  at  the  disire 

of  the  haill  other  partys  date  wryter  and  witnesses  foresaid. 

(Signed)  John  Lang,  James  M^hitlawg  Johan  Alisr)n,  James 
Broun,  ^Yilliam  Drew,  John  Drew,  John  Freeland, 
James  Taylor,  John  Brooks,  William  Miller,  Arch. 
Provan,  William  Nilson,  William  Parland,  Walter 
Buchanan,  William  Buchanan,  John  Paterson  yor., 
Ro.  Jemison,  Robert  Fleiming,  James  Dyckes, 

Alexander  Kirkfland],  John  Darrie,  MTlliam  (blank, 
paper  torn)  William  Bryson,  James  Bogle,  John 
Robertson,  Thomas  Cochran,  John  Hamilton,  Janies 
Davidson,  WTlliam  Aitkin,  John  Gibson,  John 
Gray,  Robert  Machline,  Roht.  Mood,  William 

Ritchie,  John  M ‘Gilchrist,  Robert  I.ioch,  M'illiam 
M’atson,  Thomas  Pettigr[ew']  (paper  torn  off  where 
remaining  signatures  were  adhibited). 

Et  ego  vero  Joannes  Robertson,  notarius  publicus  in  premissis  requisitus  de 
mandato  dicti,  Gulielmi  M'atson  juvcnissimi,  Roherti  Picken,  Andree  Scott,  Jacobi 
M‘Kechnie,  Joannis  Paterson  senioris,  Davidis  Selkrig,  Joannis  Buchanan,  Roherti 

Adam,  Jacobi  Hamilton,  Jacobi  Dougall,  M^alteri  Arroll,  Andree  Menzies,  Jacobi 
Walker,  Roherti  Howat,  Davidis  Lowg  Jacobi  Hogg,  Roherti  Maxw'ell,  Roherti  Clark, 
Samuelis  M‘Kenzie,  Georgij  Robertson,  Jacobi  Clark,  et  Joannis  M'Kean,  scribere 

nescientium,  ut  asseruere  calamumque  tangentium  pro  illis  subscribo. » 

Et  ego  Joannis  Colquhoiin,  notarius  publicus  in  premissis  etiam  requisitus  de 
mandato  dicti  Gulielmi  M^atson,  juvenissimi,  Roherti  Picken,  Andree  Scott,  Jacobi 
M'Kcchny,  Joannis  Paterson,  senioris,  Davidis  Selkrig,  Joannis  Buchanan,  Roherti 

Adam,  Joannis  Duncan,  Joannis  Henderson,  Joannis  Aikman,  Jacobi  Hamilton,  Jacobi 
Dougall,  Walter!  Arroll,  Andree  Menzies,  Jacobi  Walker,  Robert!  Howett,  Davidis 


Plate  VII. 


Seal  attached  to  Titles  of  Eddleston  Man.se  (See  Page  119). 


Seal  attached  to  Titles  of  Goebal  Lands  (See  Page  120). 


RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLAGKFAULDS  WEAVERS.  113 


Low,  Jacobi  Hogg,  Robert!  Maxwell,  Roberti  Clark,  Samuelis  MTvenzie,  Georgij 
Robertson,  Jacobi  Clark  et  Joannis  M‘Kean.  Scribere  nescientiiun  ut  assernernnt 
calainunique  tangentium  pro  illis  similiter  subscribo. 

JOHN  COLQUilOUN.  N.P. 

De  mamlato  etiam  Jacobi  Paterson,  EJwardi  Crabame,  Gilbert!  Norrie,  Jacobi 
Blackburn,  Scribere  nescientiiun  ut  asseruere  calamunique  tangentium  pro  illis  subscribo. 

Robert  Robertson.  Witnes  JOANNES  ROBERTSON,  not.  pub. 

Alexander  Dunlop.  Wittnes 
Daniel  Campbell.  Wittnes 
Moses  Bucbanan.  Witness 

The  only  further  record  on  tltis  subject  is  tlte  following  petition 
which  presumably  solved  the  (juestion  in  dispute,  as  there  is  no 
further  reference  to  it: — 

Unto  the  Deacon  and  Masters  of  the  Weaveris  of  Glasgow.  The  petition  of  James 
Bell,  Thomas  Davidson,  John  Campbell,  Walter  M'Queen,  James  Porter,  John 
and  William  Grays  and  \Villiam  Reston,  weaveris  at  jiresent  resideing  in  Caltoun 
or  Blackfauld,  adjacent  to  and  one  of  the  suburbs  of  the  City  of  Glasgow. 

Humbly  Sheweth 

That  we  being  most  willing  and  desirous  to  sett  uj),  use,  and  exercise  our  said 
craft  in  Caltoun  under  the  conditions  and  regulations,  and  to  enjoy  the  privileges 
agreed  on  by  a  contract  betwixt  the  weaveris  of  Gla.sgow  and  weaveris  of  Caltoun 
dated  the  tiienty  third  day  of  February  j"‘  vij>^  and  tuenty  live  years,  in  order  tbeirto 
did  require  the  present  acting  oversman  in  Caltoun  to  concurr  with  you  in  taking  essay 
of  our  capacity  to  serve  the  leiges  in  our  said  craft,  and  modifying  our  fyne  for  our 
admission  in  terms  of  the  forsaid  contract,  which  they  have  refused,  as  appears  by  ane 
instrument  tbairon  takin  this  day  in  the  handis  of  John  Marshall,  notar  publick. 

May  it  therefor  please  you  to  admitt  us  to  ane  essay  as  to  our  sufficiency  in 
said  craft  to  serve  the  leiges  and  to  modifie  the  fyne  for  our  admission  to  the 
freedoms  and  libertys  granted  from  your  trade  by  said  agreement  to  the  weaveris 
re.sideing  in  Caltoun,  and  submitting  to  the  termis  thairof,  and  being  found  qualified 
and  paying  our  fynes  to  admitt  us  to  the  liberty  of  taking  out  and  in  Avork  from 
said  burgh  ami  other  libertys  specified  in  said  agreement,  for  Avbicb  we  heirby  promise 
to  full  fill  said  agreement  and  baill  termis  thairof,  and  to  pay  the  dues  of  tuenty 
shilling  Scotis  yearly  and  so  quarterly  and  proportionelly  for  each  loom  we  shall  have 
in  our  houses  and  workhouses  within  the  boundis  forsaid  of  Caltoun  and  Blackfauld  ; 
and  quhairas  tbe  weaveris  in  Caltoun  concurr  not,  we  hereby  promise  to  pay  the 
half  of  the  fyne  to  them  quhen  they  are  regularly  acting  in  termis  of  said  agreement. 

(Signed)  James  Bell,  William  Gray,  Thomas  (T.D).  Donald¬ 
sons  mark,  John  Cambell,  Walter  M'Queen,  William 
Reston,  James  (J.P.)  Porteris  mark. 


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114  RELATIONS  WITH  CALTON  AND  BLACKFAULDS  WEAVERS. 


Att  Glasgow  the  elevnth  day  of  September  j"'  vij<=  anil  thirty  three  years. — 
Conveend  William  Buchanan,  Deacon  with  the  Masteris  and  several  other  members 
of  the  Incorporatioun  of  weaveris  in  Glasgow. — Tiie  which  day  they,  taking  the 
witliin  petition  to  consideration,  with  the  Instrument  thereinmentioned,  and  that  the 
weavers  in  Caltoun  did  not  compear  to  concurr  as  required  in  taking  the  petitioneris 
essay,  modifying  and  receiving  thair  part  of  the  fyne,  and  that  of  late  the  said 
weaveris  in  Caltoun,  subscriberis  of  said  agreement,  refuseil  altogether  to  confornj 
theirto ;  therefor  in  the  present  vue  tliey  appointed  the  said  petitioners  their  several 
essays  and  took  tryal  of  their  suhiciency  to  serve  the  leiges ;  and  they  having  givin 
their  essay  to  satisfaction,  and  each  of  them  payed  in  five  poundis  Scotis  as  half  of 
ten  poundis  Scotis  modified  for  thair  fyne  to  the  Collector  for  the  weaveris  of  Glasgow 
for  the  poor  of  said  trade,  and  being  by  express  condition  heirof  obliged  each  of 
them  to  pay  ns  the  other  half  of  thair  furder  fyne  to  the  Collector  for  the  weaveris 
of  Caltoun  for  thair  poor  so  soon  as  the  said  weaveris  of  Caltoun  has’e  ane  oversrnan 
assestoris  and  collector  regularly  chosin  and  acting  according  to  the  within  agreement. 
The  within  petitioners  in  respect  thairof  were  admitted  to  the  privilege  of  taking 
out  and  in  work  to  and  from  the  said  City  of  Glasgow,  and  to  the  other  libertys 
and  freedomis  mentioned  in  said  agreement  on  the  conditionis  forsaid,  and  gave  thair 
oathis  ch  fideli  as  use  is. 


XIII. 


SOCIAL  MATTERS. 

The  old  minute  books  have  few  references  to  social  matters,  but 
those  which  do  occur  are  extremely  interesting.  These  were  primitive 
times,  and  the  “  dekin  and  maisteris  ”  undertook  serious  responsibility 
in  looking  to  the  conduct  of  the  whole  lives  of  those  under  their 
charge.  Prentices,  and  even  some  journeymen,  lived  entirely  with 
their  employers,  whose  responsibility  was  much  more  jjarental  than 
in  later  years.  In  Chapter  VIII.,  on  “  Discipline,”  there  were  given 
such  extracts  as  referred  to  the  proper  conduct  of  trade  matters.  In 
this  chapter  are  grouped  those  which  refer  to  matters  outside  of  the 
workshop.  The  earliest  is  one  of  the  most  dignified  deliverances  in 
the  books  : — 

Vigesimo  quarto  Augusti  1594. 

Quhilk  daye,  the  dekin,  inatsteris,  and  haill  craft  of  tlie  wobsteris  lies  statnt 
and  ordaTiit  that  qnhosoevir  of  thair  brethrein  in  ony  tyine.s  heireftir  sail  use  scornefnll 
langages,  mockingis,  jestingis,  or  tantingis,  be  word  or  deid,  agains  ony  of  thair 
brethrene,  or  ony  Avther  persones  not  being  of  tbair  awin  craft,  to  tlie  dishonour  of 
God,  provocationn  of  tlie  persones  tantit  or  inockit  to  angre  or  disdain,  and  of  wtheris 
that  sail  heir  the  saidis  tantingis,  the  said  brethrene  of  thairis,  everie  ane  of  thame 
sail  paye  xvj  s.  to  the  dekin  of  the  craft  sa  oft  as  that  the  foirsaid  langag  or 
tantingis  be  word  or  deid  sal  be  wsit,  and  that  unforgevin. 

Although  the  drinking  habits  of  the  time  caused  frequent 
gatherings  in  hostelries,  yet  the  deacon  had  his  restraining  hand  on 
them,  and  he  had  the  responsibility  of  preventing  debt  being  incurred, 
thus  discrediting  the  craft : — 

(7-8-1602) 

The  dekin  and  maisteris  of  the  craft,  and  haill  craft  convenit  at  thair  Lammase 
court,  statutis  and  ordeins  that  qnhatsumever  persones  of  the  craft  sail  pas  with  the 
dekin  for  the  tyine  in  ony  ostlar  lions  and  drink,  and  at  that  tyine  lies  not  sih'ev 
to  paye,  sail  paye  the  said  silver  that  he  salbe  comptit  in  within  xv  dayes  nixt 
eftir  the  drinking  to  the  said  ostlare.  In  case  he  pays  not,  the  dekin  for  the  tyme 
will  discharge  him  of  work  quhill  he  paye  the  said  silver  to  the  said  ostlare. 


116 


SOCIAL  MATTERS. 


Abstainers  are  not  a  modern  innovation ;  they  existed  in  olden 
days.  Tlie  records  do  not  disclose  how  far  the  vow — with  its  naive 
reservation — was  kept  by  the  “haill  craft”: — 

Vigesimo  secundo  Septembris  1621. 

Thaireftir  the  deikin  and  haill  craft,  conveinit  for  the  tyme,  haifing  ane  greit 
regaird  of  thair  awin  cominoun  weill,  considdering  that  the  daylie  driiicking  of  wyne 
in  tyiiies  bypast,  lies  not  onlie  drawin  tha  fra  tliair  craftis,  spent  thair  tyme  ydillie, 
abuisit  thair  bodies,  and  wraikit  thair  haill  guidis  and  geir,  that  ar  become  for  the 
maist  pairt  indigent  and  pair.  For  remeid  thairof,  in  tyme  cuming,  all  with  ane 
consent  and  assent  concludit,  that,  nain  of  thame  sail  drinck  aide  kynd  of  wyne,  of 
.aide  sort,  within  the  bnrgh  of  Glasgow,  fnrt  and  fra  the  allevint  day  of  November 
nixtocome,  quhill  the  allevint  day  of  November,  in  the  yeir  of  God  i'"  vi'^  and  tuentie 
tua  yeiri.s  (except  it  be  that  in  seiknes  for  thair  helthe,  or  ife  ane  stranger  cans 
thame  drinck  for  the  quhilk  thai  sail  not  pay).  And  ife  onie  of  thame  contravein, 
they  do  heirby,  and  ilk  ane  of  thame,  act,  bind  and  obleis  thame  for  thair  awin 
pairtis  being  tryit  to  pay  of  thair  awin  consentis  ten  pundis  to  the  box,  and  fyve 
pund  to  the  deikin  conveiner  toties  qiwties. 

The  next  extract  throws  a  strong  light  on  the  social  habits  of 
the  time.  The  bottle  was  evidently  convenient  at  every  meeting. 
It  might  even  be  suggested  that  the  entertainment  sanctioned  was 

likely  to  cause  the  offence  reprobated ; — 

The  viij  day  of  Maij  1629. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  was  statut  and  ordanit  be  consent  of  the  haill  craft,  that 
it  sail  not  be  liesnme  to  na  freiman  of  the  said  craft  to  half  his  wyf  at  the  tabill 

quhair  the  craft  is  doeing  thair  leisum  bussines,  bot  if  scho  cam,  to  tak  ane  drink 

and  go  hir  way,  bot  if  scho  skall  and  speek  schamfull  language,  and  Mr  housband 
put  hir  not  out  of  the  hous  quhair  they  ar,  the  housband  and  the  wyf  sail  pay 
xl  s.  to  the  craft,  and  xvi  s.  to  the  baillies  toties  coties. 

Mr  G.  STIRLING 

There  seems  to  have  been  a  hatless  brigade  even  in  these  early 
days,  whether  for  sanatory  reasons  or  any  other  reason  is  not 

disclosed : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall,  the  xj  of  February  1665. 

The  quhilk  day,  the  deacone  and  maist  of  the  brethrein  of  craft  being  conveinit, 
considering  the  disgrace  lies  bein  in  the  maisters  and  collectoiir  thair  not  coming  out 
honestlie  to  meit  thair  deacone  at  thair  quarter  comptis,  buriallis  and  uther  meitinges 
with  hatti.s  on  thair  headis  this  long  tyme  bygane  being  contrair  to  actis  sett  doune 


SOCIAL  MATTERS. 


117 


thairanent  of  befoir  ;  tliairfoir  to  prevein  tlie  lyke  in  tyme  cuming,  it  is  statute  and 
ordainet  -vvitli  all  thair  consentis,  tliat  no  maister  or  collectour  in  the  said  trade  and 
calling,  sail  come  out  to  thair  quarter  comptis,  buriallis  and  uther  meitinges  quhat- 
sumever  -with  thair  deacones  present  and  to  come,  being  wairnit  thairto,  -without 
hattis  on  thair  heidis,  and  that  under  the  paine  of  ten  pundis  money  for  ilk  failzie 
toties  quoties  to  be  payit  be  the  contraveiner  of  this  present  act  for  ilk  failzie,  to  be 
applyit  for  the  us  of  the  poore  of  the  said  trade ;  and  this  to  remayne  unalterable 
in  all  tyme  cuming. 

The  weavers  could  show  gratitude  for  favours  done  and  to  he 
done : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall,  the  14  of  August  1669  yeires. 

The  quhilk  day,  Williame  Dampster,  clothier,  l)eing  recommendit  be  Williame 
Andersoune,  proveist  of  this  hurghc  to  the  deacone  and  maisters  of  the  saidis  weivers 
to  admitt  him  as  friemau  with  thame  for  ccrtaiie  guid  deidis  and  gratitudis  done 
and  to  be  done  be  the  said  Williame  Andersoune,  proveist  to  thame  ;  and  the  said 
deacone  and  maisters,  taiking  the  same  to  thair  serous  consideratioune,  have,  at  the 
said  proveistes  earnest  requeist  and  desyre  admittit  and  receavit  the  said  Williame 
Dampster  frieman  with  thame  Me  gratis,  and  qiiho,  being  present,  gave  his  aithe  as 
use  is. 

M.  ROWAND. 

The  last  extract  refers  to  the  one  social  event  which  the 

Incorporation  continues  to  observe  until  this  day,  and  it  will  be 
observed  that  even  in  1673  it  was  arranged  on  the  independent 

footing  still  customary  : — 

At  Glasgow  the  nyntine  of  Septemher  1673.  Convined 
Patrick  Hryce,  deacon  conviner,  John  Patersone, 
deacone  and  his  maisteris  of  craft,  with  the  most 
pairt  of  the  calling. 

The  same  day,  the  particularis  fallowing  are  inacted,  statuted,  and  discharged  as 
fallowis  be  comoune  consent.  In  the  first,— that  the  denner  yearlie  at  the  electione 
of  the  deacones  in  tyme  comeing,  if  any  be,  shall  be  payed  proportionallie  be  thos 
pensones  wha  are  present  at  the  samyne  Avith  quhat  sail  be  givine  to  the  tonnes 
drumeris  after  the  same  maner.  As  also  it  is  statuted  and  inacted  that  the  wholl 
maisteris  of  tread  be  yearlie  putt  out  upon  ane  lyte  in  tyme  comeing,  to  the  effect 
ane  thairof  be  ellectit  deacone  for  the  year  fallowing ;  and  als  discharges  the  dollour 
formerlie  in  use  to  be  givine  to  the  ncAV  deacone,  and  thir  presentis  to  remaine 
Avnalterable  in  all  tyme  heirafter. 


(Signe.l)  PATRICK  CLARK. 


XIV. 


PROPERTY  HELD  BY  THE  INCORPORATION. 

There  is  now  no  capital  of  the  Incorporation  invested  in  lands 
or  houses,  but  there  is  some  interest  in  tracing  the  property  which 
has  been  held  from  time  to  time.  The  oldest  is  certainly  that  at 
the  corner  of  Weaver  Street  and  Rottenrow,  of  which  the  nucleus 
was  purchased  about  1655,  and  which  only  passed  from  the  ownership 
of  the  weavers  last  year.  It  is  difficult  to  identify  the  property 
referred  to,  as  there  has  been  rebuilding  during  the  holding  of  it 

by  the  Incorporation,  but  the  following  very  early  sasine  record 

refers  to  a  portion  afterwards  acquired  by  the  weavers: — 

(Original  in  Latin.) 

Instrument  ok  Sasine  14  March  1.537-8.  — 11  Ind.  4  Paul  III 

George  Barbour,  procurator  and  in  name  of  a  noble  man  George  Sterveling  of 
Gloret  resigned  in  favour  of  a  discreet  man,  Mathew  Muirheid,  burge.ss  of  the  city 
of  a  waste  tenement  (vastum  tenementum)  lying  in  the  city  of  Glasgow  in  the 
Katounraw  (vico  ratonum)  on  the  north  side  thereof  between  the  manse  of  the  rector 
of  Edilstoun  on  the  west  and  the  tenement  of  the  late  Mr.  John  Boswald  on  the 

east.  Sasine  given  by  George  Elphinstoun,  bailie.  Common  seal  of  city  appended 

[seal  now  wanting]  Witnesses  John  Buntyne,  Adam  Kno.v,  Ale.xander  Wilsoun,  Robert 
Ker,  John  Akinheid,  Robert  Herbertsoun,  and  .John  Martin,  serjeant. 

Nicholas  Withirspoun,  master  of  arts  and  preist  of  Glasgow  diocese  and  notary 
imblic  by  apostolic  and  royal  .authority. 

Michael  Hucheson,  master  of  arts  of  Glasgow  diocese,  notary  by  apostolic 
authority. 

This  also  refers  to  a  further  purchase  of  adjoining  land : — 

At  the  craftis  hospitall,  the  7th  of  September  1664. 

The  same  day,  the  deacone  and  maisters,  taking  to  consideratioune  tlie  pryce 
of  the  landis  of  Bowastie  bought  be  thame  from  Jonet  Wardane,  and  the  chairges 
and  cxpenssis  debursit  for  bountethes,  with  infeftmentis,  and  utheris  had  be  thame 
tliairintill  ;  it  is  fund  that  the  saidis  landis  standis  ane  thowsand  merkes  money — 
in  this  manner,  viz.  —  nyne  liundrethe  and  fourtie  merkes  money  contenet  in  the 
dispositione  thairof  as  first  aggriet  upon  thairfoir,  and  fourtie  pundis  money  of  chairges 
besyd  as  afoirsaid. 


M.  ROWAND.  Clerk. 


PROPERTY  HELD  BY  THE  INCORPORATION. 


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The  two  properties  referred  to  in  the  following-  are  bnildings 
ei-ected  on  the  ground  referred  to  in  the  two  preceding  extracts,  and 
it  is  evident  that  the  land  on  which  the  parson  of  Edilstoun’s  Manse 
itself  stood  also  passed  into  the  ownership  of  the  weavers.  A  very 
interesting  ol<l  document  referring  to  this  property  is  produced  as 
Plate  IV.  It  dates  from  nearly  four  hundred  3-ears  back,  and  bears 
the  Royal  seal  on  soft  wax,  both  sides  of  which  seal  are  also  reproduced 
on  Plate  VII.: — 

22  Jnly  1665,  In  tlie  craftis  hospitall. 

The  quhilk  day,  Patrick  Bryce,  deacone,  and  inaisteris  of  craft  being  conveinet, 
they  all  in  ane  voyce  inact  thameselves,  that  ilk  niaister  sail  attend  day  about  upon 
the  workmen  that  is  bigging  at  the  new  hons  in  Robertsounes  land  as  the  deacone 
sail  api'oynt  thaine  quliill  tlie  stone  work  be  finischit,  and  thair  to  tack  notice  ilk 
day  of  the  menes  work  quhat  they  sail  be  thairat,  and  of  quhat  stane  and  lynib 
and  sand  sail  be  fnrnischit  thairto  the  tynie  of  tliair  attendance  thairat,  and  give 
upe  ane  accompt  thairof  at  ilk  night  to  the  deacone ;  and  qnha  of  thaine  failzies 
tliairintill  quhen  the  officer  requyris  tlien  thairto,  sail  pay  in  to  the  box  fourtie 
schillingis  money  for  the  us  of  the  poore. 

M.  ROWAND.  Clerk. 

At  the  foir  toure  of  the  castell  of  Glasgow,  the  21  of 
September  1 665. 

The  quhilk  day,  Patrick  Bryce,  deacone,  Mathew  Davidsoune,  collector,  Micheall 
Watsoune  and  David  Pitcairne,  having  maid  just  cornpt  and  reckoning  to  the  wholl 
remanent  maisters  of  thair  haill  intromissioune  with  the  moneyis  borrowit  from  severall 
persounes,  and  taikin  out  of  the  craftis  box ;  it  is  fund  that  the  sarnyne  is  dewlie 
and  trewlie  debursit,  wairit,  and  bestowit  upon  the  building  of  the  new  hous  in 
Robertounes  land,  belting  and  repairing  of  the  old  houssis  thairof,  and  upon  Bal- 
wastie  houssis,  as  also  in  the  new  mortcloathes  and  uthers  concerning  the  said  trade ; 
and  thairfoir  the  saidis  four  persounes  ar  cleired  and  dischairgit  thairof  for  ever. 

M.  ROWAND.  Clerk. 

The  building  having  been  completed,  a  lease  of  a  certain  portion 
is  recorded : — 

Quarto  Novembris  1670. 

The  same  day,  twa  takes  subscrivit,  the  ane  in  favouris  of  John  Findlay  and 
the  uther  in  favouris  of  Patrick  Lang,  of  the  back  land  in  Ratounraw  for  seavine 
yearis  fra  Witsonday  nixt,  quhilk  the  haill  tread  ratifies  and  approves. 


PATRICK  CLARK. 


120 


PROPERTY  HELD  BY  THE  INCORPORATION. 


The  weaver.s  held  the  land  between  Rottenrow  and  Stirling’s 

Road,  on  which,  early  in  the  eighteenth  century,  Weaver  Street  was 
formed,  but  the  greater  part,  lying  north  of  the  tenement  at  corner 
of  Weaver  Street  and  Rottenrow,  was  disposed  of.  The  whole 
property  at  that  corner  was  rebuilt  in  1796,  and  some  of  the 

ornamental  portions  of  the  original  building  had  been  preserved  and 
incorporated  in  the  new  tenement,  where  they  can  j^et  be  seen. 

There  were  properties  held  in  the  New  Wynd  and  “nigh  the 
Wynd  head,”  which  were  disposed  of  in  1767.  In  addition  to  the 
Gorbals  lands  acquired  b}^  the  Trades’  House  and  the  Trades 

conjointly  in  1605  (refei'red  to  in  Chapter  XL),  there  was  also  a 
building,  known  as  “The  Corner  House,”  owned  by  some  of  the 

Trades  for  a  short  time  previous  to  1767.  This  building  .stood  at 
the  corner  of  Gallowgate  and  Saltmarket,  which  then  met,  diagonally, 
opposite  the  Cross  Steeple.  It  was  sold  in  the  year  named. 

In  addition  to  the  mortcloths  referred  to  in  next  chapter,  the 
Incorporation  owned  and  both  loaned  and  sold  Reeds  to  the  members  for 
the  purposes  of  their  trade.  These  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century  were  (piite  a  material  asset  of  the  Incorporation.  They  were 
bought  in  bulk  in  Belgium  and  Holland  and  distribiited  as  required 
for  the  work  current.  The  onl}"  real  estate  now  in  which  the  Incor¬ 
poration  has  any  holding  is  the  Gorbals  lands  held  by  the  Trades’ 
House,  the  income  of  which  is  distributed  annually  according  to  the 
relative  proportions  of  the  purchase  money  originally  contributed. 
The  title  to  this  property  is  produced  as  Plate  III.,  and  the  seal 
attached  to  the  same  document  is  shown  on  Plate  VII. 

In  addition  to  the  books  and  documents  which  have  been  largely 
used  in  the  production  of  this  book  the  Incorporation  possesses  many 
articles  of  great  interest  and  value.  The  Deacon’s  Box  which  was 
latest  in  use ;  the  Deacon’s  Snuff-box,  which  bears  the  inscription 
“  Will  Buchanan  to  Deacon  Jo"  Alston  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers 
Glasgow  1811”;  the  Deacon’s  Bell,  marked  “Gift  of  Niel  MacBrayne 
Deacon  1793”;  a  Fly  Shuttle,  marked  “Joseph  Adkin  1772,”  and  a 
Throwing  Shuttle  Snuff-box,  marked  “  Old  Wynd  Society,”  and  bearing 


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PEOPERTY  HELD  BY  THE  INCORPORATION. 


121 


the  Anns  of  the  Weavers’  Incorporation,  are  shown  in  Plate  V. 
The  last-named  is  the  property  of  late  Preses  Norrie  of  the  Grand 
Antiquity  Society. 

The  Collector’s  Box,  which  in  the  catalogue  of  the  Old  Glasgow 
Exhibition,  1894,  is  marked  as  of  1763,  and  which  bears  the  inscription 
“  The  Weavers  Art  it  is  renowned  so  that  rich  nor  poor  without  it 
cannot  go”;  the  Collector’s  Snuff-horn — silver-mounted,  with  scroll 
bearing  the  names  of  Collectors  continuously  from  1834  till  now — ■ 
marked  “  Deacon  Thomas  Waddell  to  Collector  David  Gowdie  Junior 
of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  and  his  successors  in  office — Glasgow, 
1834”;  and  the  Collector’s  Mallet,  of  ivory,  marked  “Glasgow,  1834,” 
are  shown  in  Plate  VI. 

In  addition,  the  Incorporation  owns  the  Gold  Medal  and  Chain, 
purchased  by  the  Incorporation  in  1861,  and  worn  by  the  Deacon 
in  Plate  VIII. ;  an  older  Box  than  either  the  Deacon’s  or  Collector’s 
referred  to  above,  without  either  date  or  inscription ;  a  Silver  Gong, 
inscribed  “  Presented  to  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  by  Deacon 
J.  S.  Mair  as  a  memorial  of  his  father,  who  was  Deacon  in  1868 
and  1872”;  a  Chain  for  measuring  warps,  and  some  minor  articles 
which  were  included  with  the  Incorporation’s  exhibits  in  the  Old 
Glasgow  Exhibition  of  1894,  and  are  specified  in  its  catalogue. 


Q 


XV. 


BURIALS  AND  MORTCLOTHS. 

The  “last  sad  offices”  to  brethren  of  the  craft  were  looked  on 
as  a  duty  for  the  omission  of  which  there  was  no  excuse,  and 

penalties  were  attached  : — 

13  2-1595. 

It  is  .statut  and  ovdanit  tliat  na  In-otlier  of  craft  absent  liini  fra  convoying  of 
the  bnriall,  being  warnit  lie  the  otficiar  of  tlie  craft  to  tliat  etFect,  without  lie  have 
ane  lanfiill  cause  to  be  adinittit  be  the  dekin  and  maisteris  of  craft,  under  the  paine 
of  foure  s. 

The  present  o-eneration  can  hardly  understand  the  use  of  a 
mortcloth,  and  as  little  could  the  past  generation  liave  realised  that, 
so  soon  after  their  time,  it  would  be  so  completely  disused.  The 

coffin  was  usually  carried  to  the  grave  upon  two  poles  with  handles, 
and  it  was  covered  with  a  pall  or  mortcloth,  usually  of  black  t’elvet. 
This  article  was  owned  by  the  craft  : — 

Decinio  tertio  Febrnarij  1611 

Tlie  same  day,  it  is  statut,  concludit,  and  ordanit  be  the  deikin  and  maisteris, 
that  thair  mortclayth  in  na  tymes  to  cum  sail  not  be  lend  to  na  persoune  bot  to 
friemen  in  the  wobstercraft  bot  npone  the  conditiounes  following, — That  is,  give  the 
samin  beis  lent  to  ane  unfrie  persoune  within  the  libertie  of  this  burght,  thai  sail 
pay  thairfoir  xiij  s.  iiij  d.,  and  thes  that  borrowis  the  same  without  the  burght,  sail 

pay  XX  s.  thairfoir  {ad  pios  tisiis),  and  the  saniin  not  to  be  lent  without  the  consent 

of  the  deikin  and  maist  pairt  of  the  maisteris  for  the  tyme. 

The  following  extract  further  shows  that  the  attendance  was 
regarded  as  a  duty  not  only  to  the  deceased  but  to  the  craft: — 

Deciino  septimo  Augustij  1611 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordainit  be  the  deikin  maisteris  and  haill 
persounes  of  craft  present,  that  all  friemen  of  the  said  craft,  in  all  tyme  cuming, 
sail  convein  quhen  thai  ar  warnit  to  all  buriallis  of  thair  awin  craftes,  and  that  thai 
compeir  at  the  duelling  lions  quhairfra  the  buriall  cummis,  in  dew'  tyme,  and  convoy 
the  same  to  the  kirkyeird,  and  quhatevir  he  be  that  cumis  not,  being  laufulie  warnit. 


BUEIALS  AND  MORTCLOTHS. 


123 


except  it  be  for  aue  lauful  tryit  excnis  or  utlierwayes,  qalia  cuiiiis  mid  gait,  or  lialf 
gait,  or  l»e  the  gait,  .sal  be  as  ciilpabill  as  give  lie  war  absent,  and  sail  pay  of  unlaw 
viij  s.,  toties  (jiiutics,  miforgivin,  to  the  weill  of  the  craft. 

An  iiicreasino-  ineinliershi])  increased  tlie  need  lor  the  inortclotlis, 
and  it  was  arraiiovd  that  two  sliould  he  provideil  tor  the  weavers. 
Separate  accounts  were  kept  tor  these,  and  the  general  idea  seems 
to  have  been  that  here  was  a  necessary  item  ot  expenditure  in 
connection  with  a  burial,  out  of  which  some  money  might  be  made 
for  the  benctit  of  the  poorer  members  ot  the  craft; — 

xxvj  Februarij  1(149. 

The  said  day,  it  is  statiit  and  ordanit  be  the  dekine,  the  maistcris  of  the  craft, 
and  haill  bretherine,  quhairof  the  most  pairt  war  present,  that  thair  be  twa  mort- 
clothis  mad  with  all  diligence  as  uther  craftis  lies,  and  that  the  dekine  cans  provyde 
and  by  the  same,  and  pay  thairfoir,  ont  of  the  first  and  reddiest  of  the  craftis 
moneyis  and  guidis  ;  and  to  the  elfect  that  these  moneyis  may  be  maid  wp  agane, 
and  the  [loore  receav  no  doniage  thairby ;  and  to  the  effect  the  saidis  mortclotliis 
may  be  the  better  upholdin.  It  is  also  statnt  and  ordanit  that  all  stranger  stallinger 
entering  frieinan  heirefter  sail  pay  to  the  saidis  nioitclothis  four  niarkis ;  everie 
prenteis,  xl  s.  when  he  enters  frieinan,  and  everie  fiieiiians  sone  xx  s.  by  and  bes3nl 
thair  ordinar  fynes  and  wpsettis ;  and  this  to  remayne  in  all  tyme  cuming. 

3  Julij  1(349. 

The  same  day,  the  dekine  declarit  he  had  receavit  fra  Mr.  Joline  Herbertsone, 
for  Mr.  Johne  Ferrieris  annwalrent,  twentie  se.x  pundis,  and  farder  be  receavit  fra 
Adame  Tod  for  his  fridome  with  the  calling  sextein  jiundis ;  and  this  day  thair  is 
takin  out  of  the  box  sevine  scoir  ane  markis,  and  swa  the  dekine  lies  in  haill  twa 
hundrethe  and  four  markis ;  quhilk  haill  moneyis  the  maisteris  ordains  the  dekine  to 
wair  and  bestow  upoun  the  hying  and  making  of  the  twa  new  velvous  mortclotliis 
quhilk  the  craft  ordanit  to  cans  mak  and  provyd  conforme  to  thair  act  of  the  dait 
the  26  of  Februarij  last,  and  quhat  he  debur.sis  farder  for  the  saidis  clothis,  ordains 
him  to  be  pajdt  out  of  the  first  and  reddiest  of  the  craftis  moneyis. 


26  Augusti  1649. 

The  said  day,  the  dekine  producit  the  twa  mortclotliis  inahl  of  velvous  quhilk 
he  was  ordanit  be  the  craft  to  caus  mak  and  provyd  conforme  to  the  former  act 
maid  thairanent  quhairwith  the  haill  bretherine  (quhairof  the  most  pairt  being  present) 
war  content,  and  he  producit  thairwith  the  coinpt  and  his  debursinentis  of  the  haill 
byitig  thairof,  in  the  quhilk  thair  is  nyne  ellis  of  velvous,  and  of  silk  to  be  fassis, 
twa  pundis  and  ane  half ;  and  the  haill  conipt  being  red  thairof  and  of  ane  steik 
of  fustiane  hoght  for  lyning  thairof  and  for  making  of  the  fassis  and  clothis  extendis 


124 


BURIALS  AND  MORTCLOTHS. 


in  haill  to  the  sowine  of  twa  hundrethe  thrie  pundis  fourtein  schillingis  iiij  d.,  and 
the  dekins  chairgis  in  going  to  Edinburgh  for  bying  of  the  said  velvous  and  wtheris 
foirsaid  being  sextein  pundis,  extendis  in  haill  to  the  sowine  of  twa  hundrethe 

nyntein  pundis  xiiij  s.  iiij  d.  quhairof  he  lies  recevit  twa  hundrethe  and  four  markis 
conforme  to  the  act  of  the  dait  the  3  of  Julij  last ;  sua  restis  awin  to  him  four 
scoir  four  pundis ;  quhilk  is  ordanit  to  be  payit  to  him  out  of  the  first  and  reddiest 
of  the  craftis  goodis. 

There  is  something  ominously  like  pursuing  the  members  of  the 
craft  beyond  the  grave  in  threatening  with  a  fine  the  brother  who 
did  not  use  the  mortcloth.  A  strong  compulsitor  for  their  use  is 
found  in  making  that  a  condition  of  warning  the  craft  to  attend 

the  burial : — 

(26-8-1649) 

The  said  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  quhat  brother  of  the  calling  sail 

not  mak  use  of  the  craftis  mortclothis  that  the  calling  sail  not  be  wairnit  to  the 

buriell,  and  that  ilk  frieman  who  sail  mak  use  of  the  mortclothis  for  thair  awin  use 

allanerlie  sail  ]iay  twelff  schillingis  for  the  mikle  clothe  and  sex  schillingis  for  the 

litle  clothe,  with  twa  schillingis  at  ilk  tyme  for  ilk  clothe  to  the  officer  who  is  to 

attend  tlie  saidis  clothis  at  all  tymes  Avhen  they  ar  lent  out  and  to  be  cairfull  to  bring 

them  back  agane  and  to  tak  the  said  twa  schillingis  ilk  tyme  for  his  panes. 

There  must  have  been  disorder  in  the  response  to  the  calling 
to  burials,  so  a  re-enactment  is  necessary: — 

4  December  1654. 

The  same  day,  the  former  actis  set  doun  anent  the  keiping  of  buriallis  ar 
ratefeit  and  approvine  with  consent  of  the  haill  craft,  who  for  the  most  pairt  war 

present,  and  the  dekine  ordanit  to  sie  and  cans  put  the  same  to  execution,  and  the 

absentis  wnlayit  accordinglie. 

There  is  no  entry  for  several  years,  and  by  that  time  the 

craft  appears  to  own  four  cloths,  of  varying  size  and  age,  the 

charges  for  the  use  of  which  are  graded: — 

8  Februarie  1681. 

And  in  lyk  manner  the  baillie  and  deacon  conveiner,  deacone,  maisteris,  and 
calling  hathe,  fra  this  day  furthe  for  the  space  of  four  yearis  ordaint  the  new  meikle 
mortclothe  to  pay  tuentie  schilling  ilk  friman  ilk  tyme  they  sail  have  to  do 
theirwith,  ten  schilling  for  the  litle  new  ane,  ten  schilling  for  the  old  meikle  clothe, 
and  fyve  schilling  for  the  litle  old  clothe. 

In  1774  a  partnership  was  entered  into  between  the  Incorporations 
of  Tailors  and  Wrights  and  the  Weavers,  by  which  the  stock  of 


BURIALS  AND  MORTCLOTHS. 


125 


mortcloths  was  amalgamated,  and  the  shares  agreed  on  were  five 
twenty-thirds  to  the  Tailors,  and  nine  twenty-thirds  to  each  of  the 
other  two  Incorporations,  the  Wrights  and  the  Weavers — the  co-partnery 
to  last  for  fifty-seven  years.  The  whole  mortcloths  of  the  trades 
seem  to  have  been  amalgamated  at  a  later  date,  and  last  century 
the  custom  of  using  them  at  funerals  died  out. 


XVI. 


THE  WEAVER  IN  PUBLIC  AFFAIRS. 

There  have  already  been  quoted  allusions  to  the  burden  of  the 

cost  of  education  falling  upon  the  craft,  but  no  evidence  is  found  of 
any  direct  contribution  by  the  Incorporation.  From  the  Burgh  Records 
there  is  the  following — probably  the  beginning  of  technical  education 
in  the  city : — 

In  October,  1728,  an  interesting  appointment  was  made.  Tlie  Town  Council  tlien 
approved  of  a  contract  between  the  Magistrates  and  Susannali  Smith,  widow  of  the 
late  Rev.  Archibald  M^allace,  Minister  of  Cardross,  by  which  Mrs  Wallace  was 

nominated  Mistress  of  the  puhlict  school  erected  in  the  city  for  teaching  girls  “to 
spin  flax  into  line  yarn  lit  for  making  thread  or  camhrick.  The  lady  was  to  receive 
an  annual  “encouragement”  of  £30  sterling,  granted  by  the  Commissioners  and 

Trustees  of  the  Improvement  of  Fisheries  and  Manufactories  in  Scotland. 


An  entry  appears  showing  that  the  Incorporation  directly  helped 
the  early  efforts  in  Sunday-school  teaching.  It  was  only  fourteen 
years  before  this  date  that  Robert  Raikes  began  this  movement : — 

(21-2-1794) 

There  was  then  laid  before  the  meeting  a  Petition  of  the  Managers  of  the 
Sunday  Schools  in  Glasgow  signed  in  their  name  by  M^illiam  ^Vardlaw  preses  and  John 
Muir  secretary  praying  for  aid  to  carry  on  the  schools  for  the  current  year; — which, 
being  read,  the  members  of  the  Incorporation  being  fully  sensible  of  the  great  utility 
of  the  Sunday  Schools  and  that  many  poor  people  of  this  Incorporation  have  their 
children  taught  in  them,  unanimously  did  and  hereby  do  vote  five  pounds  sterling  to 
be  paid  from  the  Incorporation’s  Funds  to  the  collector  of  the  said  Sunday  Schools, 
and  authorize  the  said  Alexander  Wyllie  collector  to  pay  the  same  accordingly. 

The  Trades’  House  in  1808  started  a  boys’  school  for  over  100 
pupils,  to  which  school  this  Incorporation  had  permission  to  send  eight 
boys.  In  1838  the  school  was  extended  to  include  girls,  and  these 
schools  now  exist  as  Hutchesons’  Grammar  Schools. 


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In  civic  affairs,  especially  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  the  Incorporation  took  an  active  interest.  All  movements  in 
the  way  of  Burgh  Reform  were  carefully  and  critically  examined. 
The  craftsmen  most  jealously  watched  any  enactment  which  gave 
power  to  individuals,  and  were  always  favourable  to  popular  election 
of  representatives.  There  is  recorded  a  long  and  interesting  deliverance 
at  an  early  stage  of  the  discussions  and  movement  which  ended  in 
the  repeal  of  the  Corn  Laws : — 

At  the  Trades  Alms-House  of  Glasgow  the  28  Oct.  1786 
Convened  Christopher  Beck  Deacon  William  Scott 
Collector  with  the  masters  and  a  great  number  of  the 
otlier  members  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  in 
Glasgow  the  whole  being  duly  warnetl  as  was  veritied 
by  the  otticer. 

The  Incorporation  being  this  day  convened,  in  obedience  to  an  act  of  the  Trades 
House;  in  order  to  take  into  consideration  a  plati  proposed  by  the  Landed  Interest 
of  Mid-Lothian  for  altering  the  present  laws  regarding  the  ImportatioTi  of  Grain  and 
Meal  into  Scotland  and  making  their  County  the  standard  and  a  Jury  of  their  own 
number  the  Judges  of  opening  and  shutting  the  Ports.  After  reasoning  on  the  subject 
at  great  length  were  unanimously  of  opinion 

1”'°  That  in  a  Commercial  and  Manufacturing  Country  such  as  this ;  the  hands 
employed  ought  to  be  plentifully  stipplied  with  provisions  at  moderate  prices  in  order 
to  enable  us  the  moi-e  eti’ectually  to  rival  other  countries  in  Conrmerce  and  Manu¬ 
factures.  To  obtain  which  great  end  nothing  can  be  more  conducive  than  a  free 
Importation  of  grain  from  other  countries,  which  can  aflbrd  it  at  a  cheap  rate,  and 
as  the  price  of  grain  regulates  the  price  of  Labour,  our  Manufactures  in  point  of 
cheapness  would  be  on  a  footing  with  those  of  other  countries  and  we  could  easily 
go  before  them  in  point  of  quality. 

2‘*‘^  It  is  a  fact,  that  Scotland  from  its  great  increase  of  population  cannot  supply 
itself  with  provisions.  Of  the  whole  counties  only  eight  can  export  corn  besides 
serving  themselves,  and  the  overplus  expected  cannot  be  great.  The  neces.sity  there¬ 
fore  of  importing  grain  and  iueal  from  foreign  countries  is  obvious.  But  the  legislature 
has  thought  fit  to  restrict  a  free  importation  of  grain,  excepting  at  stated  periods, 
when  tlie  internal  high  price  and  scarcity  require  it ;  by  this  the  Landed  Interest 
have  always  a  certainty  of  a  sufficient  price  for  their  grain  Avith  which  they  ought 
to  rest  satisfied  and  not  by  any  innovation  hurt  their  country’s  manufactures. 

3tio  Ry  great  exertions  of  this  country  and  some  patriotic  individuals  the 
Fisheries  on  our  coasts  are  put  on  a  fair  way  of  being  a  source  of  wealth  to  the 


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nation  ;  But  the  present  plan  were  it  adopted,  would  not  only  effectually  destroy  the 
Fisheries,  but  ruin  the  whole  Manufactures  of  the  West. 

4'^'*  It  is  highly  unjust  and  unpolitical  to  allow  one  county  to  be  the  Judge  and 
arbiter  of  supplying  another  with  provisions,  especially  Mid-Lothian  one  of  the  most 
fruitful  shires  of  Scotland ;  it  would  he  more  reasonable  that  the  poorest  county 
should  be  the  rule  of  importing  grain  for  the  rest ;  It  would  be  hard  to  deprive  any 
County  or  the  Manufacturing  Interest  of  the  Right  of  supplying  themselves  in  pro¬ 
visions  at  as  cheap  a  rate  as  possible.  The  trade  and  manufactures  of  this  country 
are  the  sole  support  of  it,  as  they  pay  eight-tenths  of  the  National  Taxes  ;  to  restrict 
them  therefore  in  Provisions  would  be  to  ruin  the  country. 

The  Incorporation  for  these  reasons  are  humbly  confident  the  Legislature  will 
never  listen  to  the  Plan  of  the  Landholders  of  Mid- Lothian,  which  is  calculated 
merely  to  promote  their  own  Interest  at  the  expense  of  their  country;  and  unani¬ 
mously  resolve  to  oppose  it  to  the  utmost  of  their  power  and  contribute  their 
proportion  of  any  expense.  They  return  their  thanks  to  the  respectable  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  this  City  for  their  watchful  attention  to  the  public  Interest ;  they  also 
request  other  Societies  and  Bodys  Corporate  would  join  them  in  the  above  measures. 
And  appoint  these  resolutions  to  be  advertised  in  the  Edinburgh  and  Glasgoxv 
newspapers. 

(Signed)  CHRISTOPHER  BECK. 

The  weavers,  liowever  zealous  in  opposing  privilege  where  the  cost 
of  their  own  fooil  was  concerned,  did  not  show  any  disposition  to 
abandon  their  own  exclusive  privileges.  Early  in  the  nineteenth  century 
there  were  frequent  movements  for  the  enforcement  of  the  rights  of  the 
craft;  but  the  progress  of  the  times  led  to  Parliament,  in  1846,  with¬ 
drawing  all  such  exclusive  rights,  and  throwing  open  all  trades  and 
crafts  to  any  one  who  chose  to  engage  in  them. 

The  following  is  the  only  entry  found  of  anything  in  the 
Incorporation  corresponding  to  the  Freedom  of  the  City  being  conferred 
on  those  who  hav'e  done  special  service  to  the  community,  and,  in 
passing,  it  may  be  remarked  that  the  references  to  Rutherglen  are, 
considering  its  proximity  to  Glasgow  and  its  known  importance  as  a 
weaving  district,  very  infrequent; — 

1  May  1730. 

John  Harvie  Deacon  of  Rutherglen  Weavers  Incorporation  was  admitted  “for  his 
good  services  to  the  Toun  of  Glasgow  and  in  particular  at  the  election  of  Thos. 
Smith,  M.P.” 


THE  AVEAVER  IN  PUBLIC  AFFAIRS. 


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There  have  been  several  references  to  tlie  Incorporation  recognising, 
by  exemption  or  moditication  of  fees,  services  to  the  State  in  the 

Army  or  Navy.  In  very  early  days  the  deacon  had  to  provide  a 
musket,  presumably  for  the  arming  of  a  civic  guardian : — 

The  fourth  day  of  November,  1629. 

The  quhilk  day,  it  is  statut  and  ordanit  that  in  all  tymes  cumming  quhaever 
fallis  to  be  deacon  and  is  subject  to  put  in  ane  muskat  that  at  sal  be  Avpon  his 
awin  charges ;  and  no  help  of  the  craft. 

Mr.  GEORGE  STIRLING. 

Another  early  entry  shows  that  a  musket  was  in  pledge  to  the 

craft  and  released  on  payment  of  its  value : — 

Duodecimo  February  1641  yeiris. 

The  quhilk  day,  AVilliam  Rid,  officer,  lies  presentlie  delyverit  to  the  deacon  four 
pund  for  the  price  of  ane  muskat  quhilk  the  said  William  ressevit  fra  the  croft  to 
apryise,  and  quhilk  muskat  belongit  to  Robert  Haistie,  and  wes  impignorat  be  the 
.said  Robert  to  the  said  croft  for  satisfactioun  of  his  fyne  and  compositioune  and  the 

said  William  priefit  he  wes  fred  thairof  in  tyme  cuming. 

The  Incorporation  made  a  special  exemption  as  to  voting,  in  favour 
of  the  defenders  of  the  country ; — 

At  the  Tron  Church  of  Glasgow  the  18th  day  of  Deer., 
1755. 

The  said  [day]  it  was  unanimously  enacted  by  the  Trade  and  is  hereby  enacted 
that  no  freeman  of  the  Trade  shall  hereafter  be  allowed  to  vote  or  be  voted  upon  for 
any  office-bearer  of  the  Trade  until  he  pay  up  his  whole  bygone  quarter  accounts 
and  other  debts  due  to  the  Trade  whether  he  be  living  within  or  outwith  the  Town, 
unless  he  has  been  serving  his  Majesty  in  his  Army  or  Navy. 

A  few  years  later  they  assessed  themselves  to  the  extent  of  £200, 
which  bad  to  be  raised  by  a  special  addition  to  quarter  accounts. 
The  Regiment  was  probably  the  Highland  Light  Infantry : — 

2-1-1778.  £200  voted  by  a  majority  to  raise  Glasgow  Regiment  to  be  refunded 

by  every  freeman  paying  1/  additional  of  quarter  accounts. 

The  Volunteer  movement  at  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
when  an  invasion  by  the  French  was  feared,  was  well  supported  by 


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the  weavers,  as  well  as  the  other  Incorporated  Trades.  The  following 
entry  gives  the  beginning  of  the  movement : — 

(1-6-1798). 

The  Deacon  laid  before,  and  read  to  the  meeting  a  Report  and  Regulations  of 
the  Trades  House  of  Glasgow  remitted  to  him  with  regard  to  raising  a  Battalion  of 
Craftsmen  in  the  City  upon  the  present  emergency  when  the  country  is  threatened 
with  invasion  by  a  cruel  enemy,  to  consist  of  from  three  to  live  hundred  men,  to 
be  termed  the  “Trades  Battalion  of  Royal  Glasgow  Volunteers”  to  learn  the  use  of 
Arms,  and  be  ready  at  all  times  wdien  called  upon  by  the  Lord  Provost,  Magistrates, 
Dean  of  Guild,  and  Convener,  when  the  regular  ^Military  and  Volunteer  corps  are 
called  out  of  town,  to  stand  forth  and  defend  the  City  and  suburbs. 

The  meeting  taking  the  same  into  consideration  approved  of  the  resolution,  and 
in  order  to  give  it  full  effect  the  masters  in  the  meantime  cheerfully  offered,  and 
agreed  among  themselves  to  join  in  forwarding  the  undertaking,  and  that  a  Committee 
shall  be  ajipointed  to  [have]  the  plan  carried  fully  into  execution. 

(5-6-1798). 

The  meeting  in  pursuance  of  their  former  resolution  of  carrying  the  plan  of  the 
Trades  Battalion  for  the  defence  of  the  City  and  Suburbs  into  effect  resolved  that  a 
Printed  offer  of  service  (transmitted  from  the  Trades  House  for  the  subscription  of 
individuals)  shall  be  presented  to  the  several  members  of  this  Incorporation  for  their 
signature  to  engage  in  so  necessary  a  service,  and  for  tliat  end  appoint . 

An  elaborate  scheme  for  personally  calling  on  every  member  of 
the  craft  follows.  The  next  entry  preserved  shows  that  funds  were 
not  so  readily  forthcoming  as  offers  of  personal  service.  No  doubt  in 
those  days,  as  at  the  present  day,  it  was  felt  that  such  charges  should 
be  borne  by  the  whole  community : — 

(17-1-1804). 

The  Deacon  laid  before  the  meeting  an  extract  act  of  the  Trades  house,  dated 
the  11th  inst.,  apj>ointing  the  respective  Deacons  of  the  Incorporated  trades  to  convene 
their  incorj)orations  in  order  to  resolve  whether  they  will  contribute  an  additional 
sum  out  of  their  funds  to  be  applied  tow'iirds  completing  the  Trades  Regiment  of 
Volunteers.  The  meeting  order  the  same  to  be  laid  before  a  general  meeting  of  the 
Incorporation  in  the  Trades  Hall  on  Tuesday  first  at  5  o’clock. 


XVII. 


LATER  HISTORY. 

In  the  previous  chapter  the  later  history  has  been  somewhat  led 
up  to  by  detailing  the  action  of  the  Incorporation  at  the  time  of  the 
agitation  against  the  Corn  Laws.  Throughout  the  closing  years  of  the 
eighteenth  and  earlier  half  of  the  nineteenth  century  there  is  also 
frequent  reference  to  Burgh  and  Parliamentary  reform,  the  Slave  Trade, 
and  the  Laws  against  Popery.  On  these  subjects  the  Incorporation 
freely  expressed  its  feeling  and  used  its  inlluence  on  the  popular  side. 

An  important  factor  in  the  later  history  of  the  trade  was  the 
introduction  of  the  power  loom.  On  that  subject  Fagans  History  of 
Glasgow  says ; — 

“The  power  loom  was  introduced  to  (Jlasyow  in  177.3,  l)y  Mr  Jame.s  Louis 
Rohertson  of  Dunblane,  who  set  up  two  of  them  in  Argyle  Street,  wdiich  were  set  in 
motion  by  a  large  Newfoundland  dog  performing  the  part  of  a  gindiorse.”  John 
Rohertson,  a  Pollockshaws  power  loom  tenter,  in  several  letters  sent  to  the  Glasgow 
Herald  in  Jany  and  Feby  1871  stoutly  contests  the  accuracy  of  this  statement,  and, 
contending  that  Mr  Pagan  must  have  been  misinformed,  he  says  that  a  man  named 
Adam  Kinloch,  whom  he  met  in  1845,  and  who  was  then  eigiity-hve  years  of  age, 
“  made  the  first  two  powerdooms  that  ever  were  made  in  the  world,  and  drove  them 
with  the  use  of  a  crank  by  his  own  hand,  in  a  court  off  the  Gallowgate”  in  1793. 

In  Gibson's  History  of  Glasgow  (pp.  247,  8)  there  is  an  inter¬ 
esting  detailed  account  of  the  classes  and  values  of  textile  goods 
manufactured  in  the  city  during  1771.  He  shows  that  then  cotton 
and  linen  fabrics  largely  preponderated  over  woollen,  which  in  the 
earlier  years  had  been  the  staple  manufacture  of  Glasgow.  The 
total  value,  however,  only  reached  £156,456.  The  same  volume  has  a 
very  interesting  reference  to  the  effect  of  the  loss  of  the  American 
trade  in  1776 : — 

“Perhaps  no  circumstance  could  have  occurred  more  fortunate  for  the  manufactures 
of  Glasgow,  than  the  stop  which  has  for  some  time  been  put  to  the  commerce  with 


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America.  Prior  to  this  event  the  chief  aim  of  the  manufacturers  was  to  procure  a 
sale  of  their  commodities  to  this  market ;  and,  as  the  returns  for  these  were  not 
made  in  less  than  eij(hteen  months,  tlie  capital  necessary  to  carry  on  any  manu¬ 
facturing  branch  of  business,  even  to  a  tolerable  extent,  was  considerable :  by  the 
shutting  of  the  American  market,  necessity  has  led  them  to  make  trial  of  others, 
and  they  now  Hnd  that  markets  for  their  manufactures  can  be  procured  which  will 
make  them  returns  in  six  months,  so  tliat  three  times  the  quantity  of  busine.ss  may 
be  done  on  the  same  capital  as  formerly.” 

M'Oregors  History  of  Glasgow  gives  particulars  of  a  serious  trade 
disturbance  as  follows : — 

“  In  the  summer  of  1787  the  journeymen  weavers  in  the  Calton  commenced  an 
agitation  for  an  increase  of  wages ;  and  as  they  had  been  unable  to  obtain  all  the 
concessions  they  desired  from  their  employers,  their  feelings  overcame  their  judgment. 
Threatening  letters  were  .sent  to  those  wdio  opposed  them  ;  and  towards  the  end  of 
August  acts  of  violence  were  committed — the  rioters  cutting  the  w^ebs  from  the  looms 
of  those  of  their  fellows  who  were  w’orking  at  the  ohl  rate,  and  the  contents  of  ware¬ 
houses  were  thrown  into  the  streets  as  fuel  for  bonfires.  The  authorities  of  Glasgow 
at  last  found  it  necessary  to  take  strict  measures  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace ; 
and  on  the  3d  September,  the  city  magistrates,  with  a  force  of  officers,  proceeded  to 
the  Calton.  The  mob  attacked  them  with  a  variety  of  missiles  and  drove  them  city¬ 
wards.  A  detachment  of  the  39th  Regiment  then  quartered  in  Glasgow',  marched, 
under  the  command  of  Lieut. -Colonel  Kellet,  to  the  assistance  of  the  civil  pow'ei'. 
At  Parkhouse,  in  Luke  St.,  near  the  place  where  Tennant’s  Brew'ery  is  now,  the 
rioters  and  the  authorities  came  into  collision,  and  a  pitched  battle  ensued.  The  riot 
act  had  to  be  read  ;  and  a  volley  from  the  muskets  of  the  military  killed  three  of 
the  weavers,  and  wounded  several  others.  The  crowd  quickly  dispersed.  In  the  after¬ 
noon  there  w'ere  symptoms  of  further  disturbances,  but  any  outbreak  was  quelled  by 
the  immediate  appearance  of  the  .soldiers.  On  the  following  day  however,  more 
wrecking  of  looms  took  place  in  Calton  ;  but  the  presence  of  the  military  brought  the 
community  into  a  more  orderly  condition,  and  prevented  a  prolongation  of  the  riots.” 

In  the  closing  years  of  the  eighteenth  and  first  twenty  years  of 
the  nineteenth  century  there  was  a  rapid  increase  in  the  textile 
trade  of  Glasgow  and  neighbourhood.  M'Gregor's  History,  already 
quoted,  states  that : — 

In  1818  there  were  fifty-two  cotton  mills  in  Glasgow,  containing  511,200  spindles, 
and  employing  an  estimated  capital  of  £1,000,000  stg.  The  amount  of  cotton  cloth 
produced  yearly  in  the  city  was  computed  to  be  upwards  of  100,000,000  yards,  of  a 
t(jtal  value  of  £5,000,000.  During  this  period  there  were  61,803  packages  of  cotton 
wool  imported  into  the  city,  and  these  packages  were  estimated  to  have  contained 


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18,19S,500  lbs.,  while  there  were  ex])orteil  46,565  packages,  leaving  18,238  on  haml  at 
the  close  of  the  j^ear.  Within  the  city  there  were  eighteen  steam  weaving  factories, 
containing  2,800  looms  and  producing  8,400  jdeces  of  cloth  weekly.  Including  the  out¬ 
lying  districts  of  Partick,  Pollockshaws,  Rutherglen,  Cambuslang,  &c.,  there  were 
18,537  looms,  and  including  in  a  grand  sweep  those  looms  in  neighbouring  towns 
which  were  usually  kept  emi)loyed  by  Glasgow  mercbants,  tbe  total  mounts  up  to 
32,000  steam  and  hand  looms. 

The  question  of  maintaining  the  exclusive  rights  of  the  craft 
became  acute  about  1826,  and  there  was  frequent  litigation :  but  the 
time  had  gone  by  for  such  restrictions,  and  in  connection  with  a 
reform  of  the  whole  municipal  government  the  exclusive  privileges 
were  swept  away.  Whether  or  not  this  freedom  was  a  factor  we 
cannot  tell,  but  from  1846  onwards  there  was  a  very  rapid  expan¬ 
sion  of  the  textile  trade  in  Glasgow.  Dr.  John  Strang,  the  City 
Chamberlain  in  1856,  states  that : — 

There  were  tlien  about  .3O,UO0  cotton  spinners  and  ]iower  loom  weavers  in  the 
est  of  Scotland,  “of  wliich  Glasgow  is  the  central  mart.’'  In  1841  the  average 
weekly  wage  of  a  cotton  spinner  was  2ls.  and  of  a  power  loom  weaver  7s.  ;  in  1851 
21s.  and  7s.  3d.  respectively ;  and  in  1856  20s.  to  35s.  in  the  one  case,  and  8s.  3d.  in 

the  other.  The  working  liours  were  in  1841  69  hours  per  week,  in  1851  60  hours 

per  week. 

And  again,  writing  about  ten  years  later,  says  that : — 

The  census  returns  of  1861  showed  that  in  that  year  Textile  products  to  the 
value  of  £25,121  were  exported  direct  to  France.  There  were  employed  in  cotton, 
flax,  and  jute,  wool  and  silk  factories  in  Glasgow  1,104,472  spindles,  22,813  power  looms, 
engines  of  13,214  horse  power,  and  28,489  operatives. 

Manjr  new  branches  of  textile  manufacture  have  taken  root  and 
grown  in  the  city  during  the  latter  half  of  the  nineteenth  century, 

while  the  grey  cotton  industry,  which,  as  shown  in  the  extract 

just  quoted,  gave  employment  to  the  great  bulk  of  the  operatives,  has 
practically  been  given  up. 

The  later  history  of  the  Incorporation  itself  has  been  placid  and 
without  outstanding  incident.  As  in  the  other  Incorporations,  the 
membership  in  many  cases  has  no  connection  with  the  trade,  but  a 
reference  to  the  list  of  present  members  of  the  Master  Court  in 


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Appendix  I.  will  show  that  even  now  the  majority — and  the  Ma.ster 
Court  may  be  taken  to  be  fairly  representative  of  the  members — are 
closely  connected  with  the  Aveaving  trade.  Many  surnames  of  frequent 
occurrence  in  the  early  records  have  completel}'^  disappeared.  Such 
names  as  Fleikfield,  Winzett,  Snyip,  and  Schankschawe  are  unknown 
now.  On  the  other  hand,  the  same  families,  who  wrought  so  faithfully 
and  planned  so  broadly  for  the  future  of  Glasgow,  are  still  well 
represented  in  the  life  of  the  city.  Such  names  as  MacBrayne, 
Alston,  Paul,  Coats,  Addie,  Hunter,  Glen,  Kirkland,  Dobbie,  Ralston, 
Gemmell,  Scott,  Cuthbert,  Muir,  Anderson,  and  Kilpatrick  were,  one 
to  two  hundred  years  back,  of  frequent  occurrence  in  the  weavers’ 
records.  The  Incorporation  has  ceased  to  have  any  direct  connection 
with  or  control  of  the  weaving  trade,  but  the  interest  in  and  respon¬ 
sibility  of  caring  for  the  poorer  members  is  as  great  as  ever,  and 
it  may  fairly  be  claimed  that  the  funds  are  now  as  usefully 
administered  for  that  purpose  as  at  any  period  in  its  long  and 
interesting  history. 


APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX  I. 


INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS, 

1904-1905. 


OFFICE-BEARERS. 

Deacon. 

Kobt.  D.  M'Ewan  (No.  5), 
Cotton  and  Woollen  Manufacturer. 


Collector. 

Jos.  P.  Maclay  (No.  7), 
Shipowner. 


Adam  White  (No.  1), 

Chemical  Broker. 

John  Service  (No.  2), 

Wliolesale  Warehouseman. 

Albert  Harvey  (No.  3), 

Muslin  Manufacturer  (retired). 

Robert  Kedie  (No.  4), 

Wholesale  Warehouseman. 

J.  M.  Easton  (No.  6), 

Civil  Engineer  (retired). 

Jas.  G.  Macpher.son  (No.  8), 
Woollen  Yarn  Merchant. 

Nicol  P.  Brown  (No.  9), 

Mu.slin  Manufacturer. 


Masters. 

Thos.  a.  Paul  (No.  10), 

Foreign  Merchant  (retired). 

James  Arthur  (No.  11), 

Whole.sale  Warehouseman. 

John  Lyle  (No.  12), 

Carpet  Manufacturer. 

R.  G.  PATER.SON  (No.  13), 

Cotton  Manufacturer. 

A.  L.  Holmes  (No  14), 

Cotton  and  Woollen  Manufactui’( 

Fred.  L.  Macleod  (No.  15), 

Foreign  Merchant. 

Geo.  W.  Younger  (No.  16), 
Woollen  Yarn  Merchant. 


Chas.  J.  MacLean  (No.  17),  Writer, 
Clerk  to  the  Incorporation. 


The  numbers  opposite  the  names  refer  to  Plate  VIII. 

No.  10. — Col.  Paul  is  in  uniform  of  1st  Lanark  Rifle  Volunteers. 


Plate  VIII. 


APPENDIX  II. 


LAWS  AND  KEGULATIONS. 


I. — Name  and  Designation  of  Incorporation. 

The  Incorporation  shall  be  known,  as  heretofore,  under  the  name 
and  designation  of  the  Incorporation  of  Weavers  of  Glasgow,  and 
shall  be  governed,  in  time  coming,  as  hereinafter  provided  for. 

II. — Entrants. 

All  applicants  must  be  Burgesses  and  Guild  Brethren  of  the 
Burgh  of  Glasgow,  and  produce  their  certificates  as  such  on  making 
their  applications.  Every  person  applying  for  admission  as  a  member 
shall  produce  a  certificate  of  his  birth,  or,  failing  this,  make  a 

declaration  of  age  agreeably  to  a  printed  form  to  be  furnished  by 

the  Clerk.  These  require  to  be  lodged  with  the  Clerk  prior  to  the 
meeting  of  the  Master  Court  at  which  the  application  is  to  be 

considered. 

Far-Hand. — Applicants  at  the  Far-Hand  are  those  who  have  had 
no  previous  connection  with  the  Incorporation.  Every  Entrant  at  Far- 
Hand  must  be  approved  of  by  three-fourths  of  the  Master  Court 
present  when  he  is  proposed  for  admission.  The  Master  Court  shall 
have  the  absolute  power  to  admit  or  reject  the  application. 

Near-Hand. — Sons  and  sons-in-law  of  Members  shall  be  entitled 
to  become  Members,  provided  their  father  or  father-in-law,  as  the  case 
may  be,  shall  have  been  entered  a  Member  for  a  year  and  a  day 
pi’eceding  the  date  of  application,  and  provided,  in  the  case  of  sons- 
in-law,  that  the  wife,  through  whom  the  applicant  claims  admission, 

shall  be  in  life.  Apprentices  of  Members  of  the  Incorporation  in 

business  as  weavers,  whose  indentures  have  been  booked  with  the 
Clerk  of  the  Incorporation  within  three  months  of  their  date,  shall 

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be  entitled  to  admission  as  Members  at  the  Near-Hand  on  the 
termination  of  their  apprenticeship. 

The  applicant,  if  found  qualified,  shall,  upon  payment  of  the 
Entry  Money,  as  specified  in  the  Schedule  annexed,  or  on  payment 
of  such  Entry  Money  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  fixed  by  the 
Incorporation,  be  admitted  a  Member  of  the  Incorporation,  and  to  all 
the  liberties  and  privileges  thereof. 

All  persons  joining  the  Incorporation  shall  be  bound  by  the  Rules 
and  Regulations  thereof  in  force  for  the  time  being. 

III. — Office-Bearers  and  Management. 

1 .  Office-Bearers. 

The  affairs  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  managed  by  a  Master 
Court,  consisting  of  the  Deacon,  Collector,  late  Deacon,  late  Collector, 
and  twelve  Masters,  in  all  sixteen.  The  election  shall  take  place 
as  after  provided,  at  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Members  specially 
convened  for  that  purpose,  on  the  first  Friday  after  the  15th  September 
in  each  3^ear. 

2.— -Deacon. 

Any  Member  of  the  Incorporation  eligible  to  be  elected  to  the 
office  of  Deacon  must  have  held  the  office  of  Collector  for  at  least  one 
year,  and  been  honourably  discharged  of  his  intromissions,  and  been 
a  year  out  of  that  office.  The  Deacon  shall  hold  office  for  one  year, 
but  may  be  re-elected. 

3. — Duties  of  Deacon. 

The  Deacon  shall  act  as  Chairman  at  all  Meetings  of  the  Incor¬ 
poration  and  Master  Court,  at  which  he  is  expected  to  wear  his 
official  medal  and  chain.  In  the  absence  of  the  Deacon,  the  late 
Deacon  shall  preside,  and  failing  them  the  Meeting  shall  elect  a 
Chairman  for  the  time  being,  who  must  be  a  Member  of  the  Master 
Court,  and  the  Deacon,  or  the  person  acting  as  Chairman,  shall, 
besides  a  deliberative  vote,  have  also  a  casting  vote  in  all  cases  of 
efiuality.  The  Deacon  shall  have  power  in  any  urgent  case  to  grant 


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a  precept,  not  exceeding  sixty  shillings.  The  Deacon  shall  be  the 
Director  of  the  Old  Man’s  Friend  Society. 

4. — Collector. 

Any  Member  of  the  Incorporation  eligible  to  be  elected  to  the 
office  of  Collector  must  have  been  for  one  year  at  least  a  Member 
of  the  Master  Coiirt.  The  Collector  shall  hold  office  for  one  year, 
but  may  be  re-elected. 

5. — Duties  of  Collector. 

The  Collector  shall  manage  the  whole  money  transactions  of  the 
Incorporation,  and  shall  keep  regular  and  distinct  accounts  of  his 
receipts  and  disbursements.  He  shall  keep  an  open  cash  account  (to 
be  operated  on  by  the  Deacon  and  Collector  jointly,  or,  in  absence, 
any  two  senior  Members  of  the  Master  Court)  with  such  chartered 
or  joint-stock  bank  as  the  Master  Court  may  direct,  and  regularly 
deposit  therein  all  monies  belonging  to  the  Incorporation,  not  retaining 
in  his  hands  any  sum  exceeding  £25  sterling.  The  Collector  shall 
find  security  for  his  intromissions  with  the  funds  of  the  Incorporation 
to  the  extent  of  £200.  The  Bond  of  Caution  shall  be  prepared  by 
the  Clerk,  at  the  expense  of  the  Incorporation. 

The  Collector  shall  at  the  end  of  each  month  submit  his  books 
to  the  Deacon,  who  shall  subscribe  the  same. 

The  Collector  shall,  with  the  assistance  of  the  Clerk,  annually, 
as  at  the  15th  day  of  August,  make  up  a  correct  statement  of  his 
intromissions,  embracing  an  account  of  the  Bevenue  and  Ex^Denditure 
dui'ing  the  preceding  year,  a  Stock  Account,  and  an  Abstract  or 
Balance,  exhibiting  the  whole  properties  and  moTieys  belonging  to  the 
Incorporation,  which  shall  be  examined  and  compared  with  the 
relative  vouchers  by  a  Committee  appointed  by  the  Master  Court  to 
examine  the  same,  along  with  a  Committee  of  three  Members  of  the 
Incorporation  appointed  at  the  Meeting  in  August,  and  who  shall 
submit  the  statement,  with  their  report  thereon,  to  the  Meeting  of 
the  Incorporation  in  September,  and  if  said  statement  is  approved 
of  by  the  Meeting,  the  Collector  shall  be  discharged  and  acquitted* 


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and  his  Bond  of  Caution  delivered  up.  Any  Collector  not  being  so 
honourably  discharged  shall  not  be  entitled  to  sit  in  the  Master 
Court. 

6. — Representatives  to  the  Trades  House. 

The  Incorporation  being  entitled  to  send  four  Representatives  to 
the  Trades  House,  of  whom  the  Deacon  and  late  Deacon  are  two, 
ex  qfficiis,  the  other  two  shall  be  elected  at  the  Ceneral  Meeting  in 
September,  and  must  be  Members  of  tlie  Master  Court.  One  of  the 
Representatives  shall  also  be  elected  at  said  Meeting  to  be  a  Member 
of  the  Trades  House  Committee  on  Education.  The  Deacon  shall  be 
the  Member  for  the  Incorporation  of  the  Trades  House  Committee  on 
Buildings. 

In  the  event  of  the  re-election  of  the  Deacon,  the  late  Deacon 
shall  be  eligible  for  re-election  as  one  of  the  four  Representatives  to 
the  Trades  House. 

Representatives  wlio  have  been  elected  Deacon  Convener  or  Collector 
of  the  Trades  House,  must  be  returned  as  Representatives  so  long  as 
tlxey  hold  sxich  offices,  or  are  entitled  to  sit  in  the  House  as  late 
Deacon  Convener  or  late  Collectoi'. 

7. — Qiudijications  of  Deacon,  Collector,  and  Trades  House 
Representatives. 

It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  any  person  who  now  is,  or  who  shall 
hereafter  be,  a  Member  of  the  Incorporation,  to  hold  office  as  Deacon, 
or  to  Ixe  elected  a  Repi’esentative  of  the  Incorporation  to  the  Trades 
House,  or  a  Member  of  the  Trades  House  Committee  on  Education, 
unless  he  is  a  Burgess  and  Guild  Brother  of  Glasgow  qua  Weavei', 
or  shall  have  paid,  or  shall  pay,  to  the  Collector  of  the  Trades 
House,  two  guineas,  or  such  other  sum  exigible  at  the  time  as  the 
Entiy  Money  to  the  funds  of  the  House.  Representatives  to  the 
Trades  House  must  have  a  dwelling  house  or  place  of  business  within 
the  Municipal  boundaries  of  the  City  of  Glasgow,  as  defined  by  Act 
of  Pai’liament. 

8. — Election  of  Office-Bearers. 

The  election  of  Office-Beai’ers  shall  be  conducted  in  the  following 


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manner,  at  the  Annual  General  Meeting’  in  Septeinher,  and  the  votiu^^ 
shall  be  by  direct  vote : — 

1.  The  Member  of  the  Master  Court  duly  (lualitied  who,  on  beino- 
proposeil  ami  seconded,  receives  the  ^a'eatest  number  of  votes  of  the 
Members  present,  shall  be  declared  elected  Deacon  of  the  Incorporation 
for  one  year. 

2.  The  Meeting  shall  then  in  the  same  manner  elect  a  Collector 
for  one  year. 

8.  The  five  Masters  at  the  top  of  the  list  shall  annually  retire, 
but  are  eligible  for  re-election.  At  the  General  Meeting  of  the 
Incorporation  on  the  first  Thursday  in  August,  Members  shall  be 
proposed  and  seconded  to  till  the  vacancies  in  the  Master  Court.  In 
the  event  of  there  being  only  live  nominated,  thej^  shall  be  declared 
duly  elected  at  the  Annual  Genonl  Meeting  in  September.  In  the 
event  of  more  than  five  being  nominated,  the  names  of  the  persons 
so  nominated  shall  be  printed  on  a  slip  of  paper,  and  a  copy  of  the 
slip  shall  be  handed  to  each  Member  of  the  Incorporation  on  the 
qualified  roll  present  at  the  Annual  General  Meeting  in  September. 
Each  Member  present  shall  mark  with  a  X  the  persons,  not  exceeding 
five,  for  whom  he  votes,  and  shall  sign  his  slip,  which  shall  be  handed 
in  to  the  Clerk  at  the  Meeting.  The  votes  shall  be  counted  by  two  or 
four  scrutineers  appointed  at  the  Meeting,  and  the  five  on  the  list 
having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  shall  be  declared  by  the  Deacon 
as  elected  to  fill  the  vacancies.  In  the  event  of  one  of  the  nominees 
on  the  list  being  chosen  as  Collector,  then  the  Meeting  shall  only 
elect  four  Masters.  The  Deacon  shall  thereafter,  by  virtue  of  his 
office,  elect  two  Members  of  the  Incorporation  to  serve  in  the  Master 
Court  for  the  ensuing  year  as  Deacon’s  Masters. 

4.  Two  Representatives  to  the  Trades  House  from  the  Master  Court 
shall  be  elected  at  the  Annual  General  Meeting,  and  one  to  represent 
the  Incorporation  for  the  year  on  the  Trades  House  Committee  for 
managing  the  Gorbal  Lands. 

5.  A  Representative  to  the  Trades  House  Committee  on  Education 
shall  be  elected  from  among  the  Representatives  to  the  Trades  House. 


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6.  The  qualified  roll,  consisting  of  all  free  Members,  viz.,  those 
who  have  been  joined  a  year  and  a  day,  and  are  not  recipients  from 
the  funds,  shall  be  laid  upon  the  table  at  the  commencement  of  the 
Meeting,  and  no  person  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  whose  name  shall 
not  appear  on  said  roll.  No  minor  shall  be  qualified  to  vote,  or  hold 
office  in  the  Incorporation. 

7.  On  the  election  of  a  Mendjer  to  the  office  of  Deacon,  Collector, 
or  Master  of  the  Incorporation,  he  shall,  on  accepting  said  offices, 
take  the  oath  de  fideli,  as  use  is. 

8.  It  shall  not  be  competent  to  elect  any  Member  to  hold  office 
in  the  Incorporation  who  at  the  same  time  is  an  office-bearer  in  any 
other  of  the  Trades’  Incorporations. 

9.  The  Deacon  and  Collector  on  retiring  from  office  shall  have 
their  names  added  at  the  foot  of  the  list  of  Masters,  the  Deacon’s 
Masters  being  placed  immediately  above  them. 

10.  Any  Master  who  is  not  present  at  the  Meeting  at  which  he 
is  elected  to  office  shall  appear  at  the  first  Meeting  of  the  Master 
Court  thereafter,  and  take  the  oath.  If  he  does  not  so  appear  his 
election  shall  be  held  to  have  fallen,  but  he  may  be  re-elected  by 
the  Master  Court. 

9. —  Vacancies  dyuring  Term. 

In  the  event  of  the  death,  resignation,  or  othei’  disqualification 
of  the  Deacon,  or  the  Collector,  or  any  of  the  Representatives  to  the 
Trades  House,  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  called 
by  the  Master  Court,  at  which  the  vacant  office  shall  be  filled  up, 
ad  interim,  until  the  next  Annual  Meeting  for  election  purposes;  and 
in  the  event  of  a  vacancy  occurring  in  any  of  the  offices  of  Master, 
Clerk,  or  Officer,  the  Master  Court  shall  fill  up  such  vacancy  until 
the  next  Annual  General  Meeting. 


10.— Clerk. 

At  said  Annual  General  Meeting  a  Clerk  to  the  Incorporation 
shall  be  elected.  He  must  be  a  member  of  the  legal  profession,  and 
if  not  a  Member  of  the  Incorporation  at  the  time  of  his  election,  he 


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must  undertake  to  enter  within  three  months  thei-eafter.  The  duties 

'I 

of  the  Clerk  shall  be  to  con<luct  the  business  and  correspondence  of 
the  Incorporation  and  Master  Court.  Among  other  things,  he  shall 
write,  or  cau.se  to  be  written  out,  minutes  of  the  proceedings,  call  all 
Meetings,  as  instructed  by  the  Deacon,  assist  the  Collector  in  making 
up  his  yearl}^  accounts,  and  the  Master  Coui’t  in  all  the  ordinary 
administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  Incorporation,  and  give  his  legal 
advice  upon  such  when  required,  meet  and  give  information  to  all 
persons  applying  for  admission  as  Members,  and  also  to  Members  and 
their  widows  and  others  applying  for  relief  ;  for  all  which  he  shall 
be  paid  such  yearly  salary  and  dues  as  the  Master  Court  may  fix 
from  time  to  time,  but  exclusive  of  the  usual  professional  fees  for 
preparing  all  legal  deeds  and  documents,  which  shall  be  prepared  by  him 
as  heretofore,  and  for  conducting  legal  business  of  tlie  Incorporation. 

11. — Officer. 

At  said  General  Meeting  an  Officer  to  the  Incorporation  shall  be 
elected.  In  making  such  appointment,  it  shall  not  be  necessary  that 
the  person  so  elected  be  a  Member  of  the  Incorporation.  His  salary 
shall  be  fixed  and  his  duties  defined  by  the  Master  Court. 

IV. — Meetings  of  Incorporation. 

There  shall  be  two  fixed  Meetings  of  the  Incorporation  held  in 
each  year.  These  Meetings  shall  be  as  follows,  viz.: — (1)  The  Annual 
General  Meeting,  which  happens  on  the  first  Friday  after  the  15th 
of  September,  when  the  Office-Bearers  for  the  year  are  elected,  and 
the  other  business  transacted  as  herein  provided;  and  (2)  On  the  first 
Thursday  of  August,  called  the  Lammas  Court,  for  general  business. 

Special  Meetings  of  the  Incorporation  may  be  called  for  the 
despatch  of  business,  or  for  the  consideration  of  any  matter  oi*  subject 
affecting  the  Incorporation,  by  the  Deacon,  the  Master  Court,  or  on 
a  requisition  subscribed  by  not  less  than  16  qualified  Members.  Should 
the  Deacon  fail  to  call  such  Special  Meeting  within  ten  days  after 
the  requisition  has  been  put  into  his  hands,  it  shall  be  competent 


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for  the  requisitionists  to  convene  .sucli  Meeting  through  the  Clerk,  who 
sliall  be  bound  to  call  it.  • 

No  motion  shall  be  made,  considered,  and  decided  on  at  the  same 
Meeting  of  the  Incorporation  at  which  it  shall  be  introduced ;  but 

each  motion  shall  lie  over  for  further  consideration  and  decision  at 
the  next  Ordinary  General  Meeting,  or  at  a  Special  General  Meeting 
called  for  the  purpose,  except  as  after  provided  in  Section  VI.,  clause  2. 

At  all  Meetings  of  the  Incorporation  any  16  of  the  Members  on 
the  ([ualitied  I’oll  .shall  be  a  quonim.  After  the  Minutes  are  read,  if 
approved  of,  they  shall  be  signed  by  the  Chairman. 

The  fixed  Meetings  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  called  hy  adver¬ 
tisement  in  the  newspapers  and  by  circular  posted  to  the  known 

addresses  of  the  Members,  and  Special  Meetings  b}^  circular  only. 

V. — The  Master  Court  and  its  Meetings. 

The  whole  affairs  of  the  Incorporation,  except  as  is  otherwise 
provided  for  by  these  Laws  and  Regulations,  shall  be  managed  by 
the  Master  Court,  who  may,  whenever  they  deem  it  necessary,  call  a 
Meeting  of  the  Incorporation  for  the  consideration  of  any  special 

matter  or  matters. 

The  Ordinary  Meetings  of  the  Master  Court  shall  be  five  in 
number,  and  shall  be  held  as  follows: — (1)  On  the  Friday  immediately 
after  the  Annual  General  Meeting;  (2)  On  the  finst  Friday  of 
November;  (3)  On  the  second  Thursday  of  February;  (4)  On  the  first 
Thursday  of  May ;  and  (5)  On  the  first  Thursda}’’  of  August ;  but 
it  shall  be  competent  for  the  Deacon  to  call  Special  Meetings  of  the 
Master  Court  at  any  other  time.  The  last  four  fixed  Meetings  of  the 
Master  Court  shall  be  named  Quarterly  Meetings.  Both  the  Ordinary 
and  S[)ecial  Meetings  of  the  Master  Court  shall  be  called  by  circular 
delivered  to  the  Members  by  the  Officer,  or  through  the  Post-Office. 

The  fir.st  Meeting  of  the  Master  Court  shall  be  lield  on  the 
Filday  immediately  following  their  election,  as  above  arranged.  At 
that  Meeting  the  Master  Court  shall  elect  the  Key  Keepex’S— three 
fox’  the  Deacon’s  axid  three  fox'  the  Collectoi'’s  Box — who  shall  be  as 


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follows : — For  the  Deacon’s  Box,  the  Deacon,  the  late  Deacon,  and  one 
]\I ember  of  the  Court  ;  for  the  Collector’s  Box,  the  Collector,  the  late 
Collector,  and  one  Member  of  the  Court.  The  Meeting  shall  appoint 
the  following  Committees: — (1)  To  look  after  and  let  the  Incorporation 
property;  (2)  To  provide  for  the  education  of  the  children  of  such 
Members  as  may  require  it;  (3)  To  arrange  for  the  visitation  of  those 
receiving  aid  from  the  Incorporation  residing  in  the  city,  and  obtaining 
information  regaining  those  at  a  distance ;  and  (4)  To  examine  the 
securities  of  the  Incorporation. 

At  the  four  Quarterly  Meetings  the  general  business  shall  be 
transacted,  such  as — the  admission  of  Members,  revision  of  the  Roll 
of  Pensioners,  and  any  other  business  competent  to  be  dealt  with  by 
the  Master  Court. 

At  all  Meetings  of  the  Master  Court  seven  shall  be  a  quorum. 

VI. — The  Funds. 

1.  The  Funds  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  applied  for  the  support 
of  decayed  Members  of  the  Incorporation,  and  of  deceased  Members’ 
widows  in  indigent  circumstances,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Master  Court ; 
and  also,  of  unmarried  daughters,  as  provided  in  Section  VII.,  clause 
10  hereof ;  for  aids,  by  donation  or  otherwise,  to  public  institutions 
and  benevolent  objects ;  and  for  the  promotion  of  public  measures 
for  the  advantage  of  the  Incorporation  and  the  good  of  the  community 
of  Glasgow,  if  voted  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Incorpoi’ation  duly  called. 

2.  The  Funds  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  managed  under  the 
direction  and  superintendence  of  the  Master  Court,  who  shall  have 
all  the  powers,  privileges,  and  immunities  of  gratuitous  Trustees,  by 
Statute  or  at  Common  Law,  and  particularly,  but  without  prejudice 
to  said  generality,  the  Funds  may  be  invested  in  the  purchase  of 
lands,  houses,  feu-duties,  or  ground  annuals,  or  in  Government 
annuities,  or  may  be  lent  upon  first  heritable  bonds  to  an  amount  not 
exceeding  two-third  parts  of  the  estimated  value  of  the  property 
mortgaged,  in  addition  to  the  personal  security  of  the  borrowers,  or 
upon  the  security  of  the  dues  of  the  River  Clyde,  under  the  Acts 


T 


146 


APPENDIX. 


constituting  the  River  Trust,  or  to  the  City  Corporation,  or  to  tl\e 
Police  or  Statute  Labour  Board  for  Glasgow,  or  may  be  deposited 
in  any  Chartered  or  Joint-Stock  Bank,  but  shall  not  be  lent  on 
personal  security,  or  to  any  Member  of  the  Master  Court.  No  motion 
for  any  grant  of  money  exceeding  £20  shall  be  entertained,  except 
by  the  consent  of  two-thirds  of  the  Meeting  at  which  the  motion 
is  made,  unless  notice  of  the  same  has  been  tabled  and  read  at 
a  pi’evious  Meeting  of  the  Incorporation,  excepting  alwaj^s  the  grant 
to  unmarried  daughters,  for  which  no  previous  notice  of  motion  is 
required.  The  investments  of  the  Incorporation  shall  be  taken  in 
name  of  the  Deacon  and  Collector  for  the  time  being,  and  their 
successors  in  office,  as  Trustees  for  behoof  of  the  Incorporation. 

VII. — The  Pensioners. 

1.  The  right  to  enrol,  and  to  remove  from  the  Pension  Roll,  any 
person  whatever,  rests  with  the  Master  Court. 

2.  It  shall  not  be  competent  to  enrol  any  person  as  a  Pensioner 
on  the  funds  of  the  Incorporation  who  is  a  Member  of  the  Master 
Court  of  any  Incorporation. 

8.  Pensioners  on  the  funds  of  the  Incorporation  shall  not  be 
entered  upon  the  qualified  roll,  and  shall  not  vote  or  be  voted  upon. 

4.  All  pensions  shall  be  payable  during  the  pleasure  of  the  Master 
Court,  and  no  person  shall  have,  or  shall  acquire,  a  legal  right  to 
share  the  funds  of  the  Incorporation  as  Pensioners  or  otherwise. 

5.  Pensions  may  be  awarded  by  the  Incorporation  to  decayed 
Members  and  the  widows  of  deceased  Members  in  indigent  circum¬ 
stances  to  such  extent  as  the  Master  Court  shall  consider  suitable. 

6.  No  pension  shall  be  awarded  until  the  expiry  of  five  years 
after  the  admission  of  the  person  in  respect  of  whose  Membership 
the  aid  is  asked,  unless  under  exceptional  circumstances  to  be  judged 
of  by  the  Master  Court. 

7.  All  applications  for  pensions  or  aid  from  the  funds  of  the 
Incorporation  must  be  lodged  with  the  Clerk,  stating  the  age,  means  of 
support,  residence,  and  other  circumstances  of  the  applicant,  according 


APPENDIX. 


147 


to  a  printed  form  to  be  furnished  by  the  Clerk.  If  entertained,  the 
application  shall  be  remitted  to  one  or  more  of  the  Master  Court, 
who  shall  carefully  consider  the  same,  and  report  thereon  to  next 
Meeting  of  the  Master  Court. 

8.  Pensioners  shall  be  paid  quarterly  in  advance.  The  pensions 
shall  be  paid  by  the  Collector  on  Saturday  immediately  after  each 
of  the  four  Quarterly  Meeting's  of  the  Master  Court  in  the  Trades 
House  or  other  place  duly  appointed  and  intimated,  or  may  be  remitted 
to  the  pensioners. 

9.  On  due  intimation  of  the  death  of  any  pensioner  being  received 
by  the  Deacon  or  Collector,  an  allowance  of  £3  may  be  given  for 
funeral  charges. 

10.  It  has  been  customary  for  many  years  for  the  Master  Court 
to  ask  from  the  Incorporation  a  sum  yearly  from  the  funds  to  be 
distributed  among  the  necessitous  unmarried  daughters  of  deceased 
Members,  and  this  custom  may  be  continued. 

11.  As  heretofore,  the  Master  Court  shall  have  the  pi'ivilege  of 
recommending  persons  as  pensioners  on  the  funds  of  the  Trades  House, 
according  to  the  enactments  made,  or  to  be  made,  by  the  Trades 
House  to  that  effect. 

VIII. — Alteration  of  Rules  and  Regulations.  _ 

These  Laws  or  Regulations  shall  not  be  altered  or  rescinded  in 
any  respect  until  the  proposed  alteration  or  repeal  has  been  tabled 
and  read  at  one  Meeting  of  the  Incorporation,  and  considered  at 
another  Meeting,  at  least  one  month  subsequent  to  that  at  which  it 
was  tabled  and  I'ead,  and  then  agreed  to  by  two-thirds  of  the  Members 
present  at  sucb  latter  Meeting,  and  until  such  alteration  or  repeal  has 
been  sanctioned  by  the  Trades  House. 


148 


APPENDIX. 


INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS  OF  GLASGOW. 


ENTRANCE  FEES  SANCTIONED  BY  TRADES’  HOUSE, 

18th  MAY,  1905. 


Age  Next 

Birth-day. 

Near-Haud. 

Far-Hand. 

Age  Next  Birth-day. 

Near-Hand. 

Far- Hand. 

£ 

S. 

D. 

£ 

s. 

1 

D.  ' 

£ 

S. 

D. 

£ 

s. 

D. 

25  years 

and  under 

10 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

48  years  and  under 

21 

10 

0 

66 

0 

0 

26 

10 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

49 

22 

0 

0 

68 

0 

0 

27 

11 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

50 

22 

10 

0 

70 

0 

0 

28 

11 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

51 

23 

0 

0 

72 

0 

0 

29 

12 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

52 

23 

10 

0 

74 

0 

0 

30 

12 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

53 

24 

0 

0 

76 

0 

0 

31 

13 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

1 

54 

24 

10 

0 

78 

0 

0 

32 

13 

10 

0 

40 

0 

1 

0 

55 

25 

0 

0 

80 

0 

0 

33 

14 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

56 

25 

10 

0 

82 

0 

0 

34 

14 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

57 

26 

0 

0 

84 

0 

0 

35 

15 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

5S 

26 

10 

0 

86 

0 

0 

36 

15 

10 

0 

42 

0 

0 

59 

27 

0 

0 

88 

0 

0 

37 

1(5 

0 

0 

44 

0 

0 

'  60 

27 

10 

0 

90 

0 

0 

38 

16 

10 

0 

46 

0 

0 

61 

28 

0 

0 

92 

0 

0 

39 

17 

0 

0 

48 

0 

0 

62 

28 

10 

0 

94 

0 

0 

40 

17 

10 

0 

50 

0 

0 

63 

29 

0 

0 

96 

0 

0 

41 

18 

0 

0 

52 

0 

0 

’  64 

29 

10 

0 

98 

0 

0 

42 

18 

10 

0 

54 

0 

0 

65 

30 

0 

0 

100 

0 

0 

43 

19 

0 

0 

5(5 

0 

0 

66 

30 

10 

0 

102 

0 

0 

44 

19 

10 

0 

58 

0 

0 

67 

31 

0 

0 

104 

0 

0 

45 

20 

0 

0 

60 

0 

0 

68 

31 

10 

0 

106 

0 

0 

46 

20 

10 

0 

62 

0 

0 

69 

32 

0 

0 

108 

0 

0 

47 

21 

0 

0 

64 

0 

0 

'  70 

32 

10 

0 

110 

0 

0 

APPENDIX  III. 


TABULATED  STATEMENT, 

Showing  Membership,  Income,  Expenditure,  and  Capital  Funds  of  the  Incorporation  of 
M'eavers  of  Glasgow  from  1866  to  1904. 


Year. 

Income  from 
Investments. 

Members 

Admitted. 

Entry-Money 
and  Quarters’ 
Accounts. 

Total 

Income. 

Expenditure. 

Kecipients 

of  Aid. 

Increase  in 
Capital. 

Total  Capital. 

1866-67 

810 

S. 

2 

D. 

7i 

15 

69 

S. 

17 

D. 

4 

879 

s. 

19 

D. 

lU 

£ 

733 

s. 

4 

D. 

4 

65 

146 

S. 

15 

l>. 

n 

13,987 

s. 

6 

l>. 

8-J. 

1867-68 

711 

3 

H 

15 

93 

5 

0 

804 

8 

U 

757 

7 

4 

74 

47 

0 

94 

16,334 

7 

6 

1868-69 

741 

13 

4 

6 

29 

13 

8 

771 

7 

0 

685 

12 

34 

77 

85 

14 

84 

16,420 

2 

2i 

1869-70 

787 

3 

44 

9 

70 

5 

0 

857 

8 

44 

643 

6 

11 

71 

214 

1 

54 

16,718 

10 

0 

1870-71 

786 

6 

8 

27 

196 

3 

0 

982 

9 

8 

637 

2 

6i 

69 

345 

7 

14 

17,063 

17 

14 

1871-72 

777 

15 

4 

19 

139 

6 

4 

917 

1 

8 

720 

6 

64 

76 

196 

15 

14 

17,260 

12 

3 

1872-73 

765 

6 

10 

55 

7 

0 

820 

13 

Si 

738 

18 

4 

77 

81 

15 

4 

17,342 

7 

7 

1873-74 

822 

4 

94 

10 

65 

16 

10 

888 

1 

7i 

737 

17 

34 

73 

150 

4 

4 

17,492 

11 

11 

1874-75 

792 

16 

114 

12 

153 

14 

8 

946 

11 

7i 

723 

16 

34 

74 

222 

15 

4 

17,715 

7 

3 

1875-76 

920 

0 

34 

29 

213 

14 

2 

1133 

14 

5i 

898 

11 

1 

75 

235 

3 

44 

17,950 

10 

74 

1876-77 

866 

2 

64 

20 

296 

18 

8 

1163 

1 

6i 

801 

3 

6 

75 

361 

18 

04 

18,312 

8 

8 

1877-78 

893 

15 

04 

25 

226 

14 

5 

1120 

9 

54 

918 

11 

104 

3 

79 

2(11 

17 

7 

18,514 

6 

3 

1878-79 

857 

13 

7 

19 

171 

11 

2 

1029 

4 

9 

89.5 

2 

88 

134 

2 

6 

18,648 

8 

9 

1879-80 

850 

0 

74 

18 

216 

3 

6 

1066 

4 

H 

865 

7 

44 

86 

233 

3 

7 

18,881 

12 

4 

1880-81 

896 

5 

2i 

22 

210 

13 

5 

1106 

18 

74 

909 

5 

9 

88 

197 

12 

104 

19,079 

5 

OI 

1881-82 

860 

11 

0 

13 

80 

13 

4 

941 

4 

4 

862 

18 

1 

83 

78 

6 

3 

19,157 

11 

54 

1882-83 

967 

17 

H 

17 

176 

6 

7 

1144 

4 

805 

0 

2 

78 

339 

4 

Oi 

““2 

19,496 

15 

8 

1883-84 

911 

13 

114 

13 

143 

12 

10 

1055 

6 

94 

830 

0 

104 

77 

244 

2 

2 

19,740 

17 

10 

1884-85 

966 

2 

04 

53 

793 

8 

2 

1759 

10 

24 

810 

13 

54 

85 

948 

16 

9 

20,689 

14 

7 

1885-86 

1022 

9 

10 

15 

193 

14 

10 

1246 

4 

8 

872 

11 

2 

81 

343 

13 

6 

21,033 

8 

1 

1886-87 

925 

4 

7 

11 

145 

16 

9 

1071 

1 

4 

1036 

8 

10 

81 

217 

5 

7 

21,250 

13 

8 

1887-88 

1006 

3 

8 

9 

90 

1 

6 

1096 

5 

2 

1118 

7 

2 

80 

19 

S 

31,167 

U 

0 

1888-89 

1026 

17 

10 

117 

8 

7 

1144 

6 

Oi 

1021 

18 

79 

215 

9 

7 

21,383 

3 

7 

1889-90 

953 

18 

11 

11 

235 

9 

9 

1189 

8 

8 

864 

2 

5 

70 

325 

6 

3 

21,708 

9  10 

1890-91 

980 

14 

hi 

4 

98 

19 

3 

1079 

13 

34 

930 

11 

8 

64 

149 

1 

74 

21,857 

11 

54 

1891-92 

1032 

5 

7 

11 

104 

11 

4 

1136 

16 

11 

891 

3 

H 

70 

245 

13 

14 

22,103 

4 

7 

1892-93 

969 

2 

n 

15 

163 

9 

6 

1132 

11 

74 

947 

5 

hi 

69 

185 

6 

1 

22,288 

10 

8 

1893-94 

968 

12 

Ol 

•-2 

13 

184 

12 

10 

1153 

5 

04 

922 

15 

H 

75 

230 

9 

8 

22,519 

0 

4 

1894-95 

1040 

2 

11 

41 

548 

17 

11 

1589 

0 

10 

968 

18 

3 

62 

620 

2 

7 

23,139 

2 

11 

1895-96 

990 

6 

9 

14 

125 

19 

10 

1116 

6 

7 

1045 

8 

6 

76 

70 

18 

1 

23,210 

1 

0 

1896-97 

976 

17 

4 

13 

188 

16 

8 

1 165 

14 

0 

1005 

3 

2 

74 

160 

10 

10 

23,370 

11 

10 

1897-98 

1076 

1 

6 

11 

245 

6 

2 

1321 

7 

8 

1003 

19 

3 

74 

317 

8 

5 

23,688 

0 

3 

1898-99 

949 

10 

9 

17 

323 

5 

3 

1272 

16 

0 

936 

1 

9 

75 

336 

14 

3 

24,024 

14 

6 

1899-00 

979 

11 

5 

13 

184 

11 

1 

1164 

2 

6 

944 

3 

9 

71 

219 

18 

9 

24,244 

13 

3 

1900-01 

1137 

15 

3 

21 

163 

0 

6 

1300 

15 

9 

1017 

4 

10 

69 

283 

10 

11 

24,528 

4 

2 

1901-02 

1101 

2 

8 

11 

383 

9 

2 

1484 

11 

10 

930 

3 

5 

72 

554 

8 

5 

25,082 

12 

7 

1902-03 

1106 

16 

5 

49 

894 

1 

11 

2000 

18 

4 

987 

4 

6 

74 

1013 

13 

10 

26,096 

6 

5 

1903-04 

1441 

19 

Hi 

35 

660 

8 

7 

2102 

8 

64 

1014 

3 

04 

71 

1088 

5 

6 

27,184 

11 

11 

APPENDIX  IV. 


LIST  OF  PERSONS 

WHO  HELD  THE  OFFICE  OF  DEACON  OF  THE 
INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS. 


1591-92 

Jolinne  Glen. 

1592-93 

Do. 

1593-94 

Arcliihalil  Patevsone. 

1594-95 

Do. 

1595-96 

Richard  Kirkland. 

1596-97 

Arcliil)ald  Paterson. 

1597-98 

Richard  Kirkland. 

1598  99 

Do. 

1599-1600 

Do. 

1600-01 

Finlaye  Schankschawe. 

1601-02 

Archibald  Patersone. 

1602-03 

Richard  Kirkland. 

1603-04 

Archibald  Patersoun. 

1604-05 

Richard  Kirkland. 

1605-06 

Archibald  Paterson. 

1606-07 

Richard  Kirkland. 

1607-08 

John  Clerk. 

1608-09 

Archibald  Patersoune. 

1609-10 

Richert  Kirkland. 

1610-11 

Johne  Clark. 

1611-12 

Willianie  Kirkland. 

1612-13 

Johne  Clark. 

1613-14 

Geor"  Schirilaw. 

1614-15 

Johne  Clark. 

1615-16 

Geor<f  Schirilaw. 

1616-17 

Johne  Baird. 

1617-18 

Do. 

1618-19 

Archibald  Patersoune. 

1619-20 

Willianie  Kirkland. 

1620-21 

.lohne  Clark. 

1621-22 

doline  Baird. 

1622-23 

Johne  Clark. 

1623-24 

Thomas  Andirsoune. 

1624-25 

John  Baird. 

1625-26 

Patrick  Clark. 

1626-27 

James  Grahame. 

1627-28 

James  Weinzet. 

1628-29 

John  Falconer  younger. 

1629-30 

James  Grahame  elder. 

1630-31 

John  b'alconer  younger. 

1631-32 

Patrik  Clairk. 

1632-33 

Johnne  Falcouner. 

1633-34 

Thomas  Andirsoune. 

1634-35 

John  Falcouner. 

1635-36 

William  Falcouner. 

16.36-37 

Thomas  Andirsoune. 

1637-38 

Patrik  Clark. 

1638-39 

Do. 

1639-40 

Thomas  Andirsoun. 

1640-41 

Richard  Flaikfeild. 

1641-42 

Patrik  Clark. 

1642-43 

Johne  Falconer. 

1643-44 

•Johne  Baird. 

1644-45 

Patrik  Clark. 

1645-46 

Johne  Baird. 

1646-47 

Patrik  Clark. 

1647-48 

Johne  Baird. 

1648-49 

Patrik  Bryce. 

1649-50 

Do. 

1650-51 

Do. 

1651-52 

Patrik  Clark. 

1652-53 

Do. 

1653-54 

Archibald  Glen. 

1654-55 

Patrik  Clerk. 

1655-56 

Michaell  Watsone. 

1656-57 

.John  Falconer. 

1657-58 

Michaell  Watsone. 

1658-59 

Johne  Falconer. 

1659-60 

Do. 

1660-61 

Archibald  Glen. 

1661-62 

Johne  l<"alconer. 

1662-63 

Do. 

1663-64 

Johne  Clark. 

1664-65 

Patricke  Bryce. 

1665-66 

Johne  Falconer. 

1666-67 

Walter  Stewart. 

1667-68 

Johne  Clark. 

1668-69 

Walter  Stewart. 

1669-70 

Archibald  Glen  younger. 

1670-71 

John  IRaickfeild  younger. 

1671-72 

Walter  Stewart. 

1672-73 

John  Patersone  younger. 

APPENDIX. 


1673-74 

Robert  Flaikfeild. 

1674-75 

Robert  Gilniour. 

1675-76 

Patrick  Lang. 

1676-77 

Robert  Flaikfeild. 

1677-78 

Patrick  Laiig.  1 

1678-79 

John  Fleackfeild  eltler. 

1679-80 

Gawine  Stevine. 

1680-81 

William  Paislay. 

1681-82 

Robert  Barbour. 

1682-83 

William  Boill. 

1683-84 

William  Paslay. 

1684-85 

Do. 

1685-86 

Johne  Stevine  younger. 

1686-87 

1687-88 

1688-89 

John  M ‘Gilchrist. 

1689-90 

Do. 

1690-91 

James  Findlay. 

1691-92 

1692-93 

1693-94 

1694-95 

1695-96 

Robert  Dobbie. 

1696-97 

John  Loch. 

1697-98 

1698-99 

1699-1700 

1700-01 

Wm.  Haddin. 

1701-02 

1702-03 

Win.  Haddin. 

1703-04 

1704-05 

1705-06 

1706-07 

1707-08 

Robert  Loch. 

1708-09 

1709-10 

1710-11 

James  Boyll. 

1711-12 

1712-13 

Robert  Wood. 

1713-14 

William  Haddin. 

1714-15 

James  Bole. 

1715-16 

William  Brysonne. 

1716-17 

Thomas  Cochran. 

1717-18 

William  Ritchie. 

1718-19 

William  Hadilin. 

1719-20 

Robert  Wood. 

1720-21 

John  Robertson. 

1721-22 

Robert  Loch. 

1722-23 

James  Boylle. 

1723-24 

Wm.  Bryson. 

1724-25 

John  Lang. 

1725-26 

James  Boyll. 

1726-27 

Robert  Wood. 

1727-28 

James  Campbell. 

1728-29 

Robert  Machlin. 

1729-30 

John  Lang. 

1730-31 

John  M'Endoe. 

1731 -.32 

Kobert  Mauchlin. 

1 732-33 

Wm.  Buchanan. 

1733-34 

James  Boyll. 

1734-35 

James  Camphell. 

17.35-36 

.Tohn  Goudie. 

1736-37 

Wm.  Watson. 

17.37-38 

Thomas  Brown. 

1738-39 

John  M‘Eldoe. 

1739  40 

James  Smith. 

1740-41 

Andrew  Millar. 

1741-42 

1742-43 

1743-44 

1744-45 

1745-46 

1746-47 

1747-48 

Robert  Barbour. 

1748-49 

James  Stewart. 

1749-50 

Do. 

1750-51 

William  Aitken . 

1751-52 

.James  Henderson. 

1752-53 

Patrick  Brisbane. 

175.3-54 

Thomas  Coats. 

17.54-55 

Patk.  Cummin. 

1755-56 

John  Robertson. 

1756-57 

David  D.alglish. 

1757-58 

Do. 

1758-59 

John  Barbour. 

17.59-60 

William  Knox. 

1760-61 

James  Gibson. 

1761-62 

Alex.  Riddell. 

1762-63 

.lames  Davidson 

1763-64 

Robert  Winning. 

1764-65 

.Tames  Bogle. 

1765-66 

Wm.  M'Farlane. 

1766-67 

John  Robertson. 

1767-68 

Thomas  Adam. 

1768-69 

David  Lennox. 

1769-70 

Richard  Millar. 

1770-71 

William  Bell. 

1771-72 

Alexr.  Scott. 

1772-73 

Francis  Reid. 

1773-74 

William  Boyle. 

1774-75 

David  Dalglish. 

1775-76 

William  Bell. 

1776-77 

Malcolm  Dim. 

1777-78 

John  Simson. 

1778-79 

Patrick  Salmon. 

1779-80 

Christopher  Beck. 

1780-81 

William  Ritchie. 

1781-82 

Alex.  Campbell. 

1782-83 

John  Reid. 

152  APPENDIX. 


1783-84 

John  Reitl. 

1784  85 

John  Paul. 

1785-86 

William  Shaw. 

1786-87 

Christopher  Reck. 

1787-88 

Jas.  Richardson. 

1788-89 

John  Kirkland. 

1789-90 

William  Scott. 

1790-91 

Jas.  Richardson. 

1791-92 

John  Turner. 

1792-93 

Neil  M'Brayne. 

1793-94 

William  Hunter. 

1794-95 

Thomas  Alston. 

1795-96 

Alexr.  Wyllie. 

1796-97 

John  Coats,  Junr. 

1797-98 

Andrew  Adie. 

1798-99 

James  Paul. 

1799-1800 

John  Duncan. 

1800-01 

Robert  Cullen. 

1801-02 

James  Watson. 

1802-03 

Thoma.s  Alston. 

1803-04 

John  Wright. 

1804-05 

William  Scott,  Junr 

1805-06 

John  Coats. 

1806-07 

Robert  Easton. 

1807-08 

Thomas  Alston. 

1808-09 

John  M‘Nair. 

1809-10 

William  Buchanan. 

1810-11 

John  Alston,  Junr. 

1811  12 

John  Graham. 

1812-13 

Alexander  Wylie. 

1813-14 

William  Blackburn. 

1814-15 

William  Snell. 

1815-16 

James  Watson. 

1816-17 

Laurence  Phillips. 

1817-18 

Robert  Miller. 

1818-19 

Cornelius  Brown. 

1819-20 

Laurence  Phillips. 

1820-21 

William  Frew. 

1821-22 

William  Buchanan. 

1822-23 

John  M'Whannell. 

1823-24 

James  Graham. 

1824-25 

Robert  Wilson. 

1825-26 

Alexander  Campbell. 

1826-27 

William  Craig. 

1827-28 

William  Frew. 

1828-29 

William  Patrick. 

1829-30 

Robert  Wilson. 

1830  31 

James  M'Lellan. 

1831-32 

John  Blackie. 

1832-33 

John  Neill. 

1833-34 

John  Walker. 

1834-35 

Thomas  Waddell. 

1835-36 

William  I’atrick. 

1836  37 

David  Goiidie. 

1837-38 

.John  Houston. 

1838-39 

John  Hendry. 

1839-40 

William  Lyall. 

1840-41 

James  M‘Lellan. 

1841-42 

James  Scott. 

1842-43 

John  Hendry. 

1843-44 

.John  Turner. 

1844-45 

John  Orr. 

1845-46 

Alexander  Bartholomew. 

1846-47 

James  Seiwice. 

1847-48 

Robert  Cooper. 

1848-49 

Janies  Service. 

1849-50 

John  Knox. 

1850  51 

William  Fraser. 

1851-52 

Allan  M‘Dougall. 

1852-53 

Andrew  Wilson. 

1853-54 

George  Thomson. 

1854-55 

William  Fraser. 

1855-56 

John  Morrison. 

1856-57 

Joseph  Ewing. 

1857-58 

John  Orr. 

1858-59 

Andrew  Marshall. 

1859-60 

James  Smart. 

1860-61 

Henry  Bruce. 

1861-62 

Andrew  Wilson. 

1862-63 

Henry  Bruce. 

1863-64 

Andrew  Marshall. 

1864-65 

James  Gourlay. 

1865-66 

.Joseph  Ewing. 

1866-67 

Forrest  Frew. 

1867-68 

J.  W.  Anderson. 

1868-69 

John  Mair. 

1869-70 

William  Johnston. 

1870-71 

James  Downie. 

1871-72 

Robert  Gourlay. 

1872-73 

John  Mair. 

1873-74 

James  Anderson. 

1874-75 

George  Gibson. 

1875-76 

James  Alexander. 

1876-77 

Alexander  Begg. 

1877-78 

Alexander  Birrell. 

1878-79 

Matthew  Fairley. 

1879-80 

William  Duncan. 

1880-81 

William  Newlands. 

1881-82 

John  Millen. 

1882-83 

James  Thomson. 

1883-84 

George  Younger. 

1884-85 

.James  Wilson. 

1885-86 

David  Paterson. 

1886-87 

Angus  Mitchell. 

1887-88 

J ames  Hutton. 

1888-89 

John  Miller. 

1889-90 

Andrew  Paterson. 

1890-91 

John  Knox. 

1891-92 

Peter  Steven. 

1892-93 

John  B.  Wingate. 

APPENDIX. 


153 


1893- 94  James  Waddel. 

1894- 95  John  S.  Mair. 

1895- 96  Adam  White. 

1896- 97  M.  Pearce  Campbell. 

1897- 98  James  A.  Duncan. 

1898- 99  Robt.  F.  Alexander. 


1899- 1900  John  G.  Couptr. 

1900- 01  John  Service. 

1901- 02  Do 

1902- 03  Albert  Harvey. 

1903- 04  Robert  Kedie. 

1904- 05  R.  D.  hPEwan. 


Note. — The  surviving  Deacons  in  above  list  have  tlie  names  printed  in  italics. 


CLEEKS 

TO  THE 

INCORPORATION. 

1600-02 

J.  Allinson. 

1679-90 

Robert  Finnisone. 

1602-06 

J.  Craig. 

1690-1716 

Thomas  Falconer. 

1606-08 

J.  Allinson. 

1716- 

John  Robertson. 

1608-27 

W.  Fleming. 

1788 

Thomas  Sivert. 

1627-31 

Geo.  Stirling. 

1789-1821 

James  Robb. 

1631-42 

Patrick  Baird. 

1821-43 

James  Wilson. 

1642-59 

Wm.  Yair. 

1843-56 

Adam  Monteith. 

(Also  Town  Clerk 

of  Glasifow.) 

1856-65 

John  Earston. 

1659-69 

M.  Rowand. 

1865-99 

William  MacLean. 

1669-78 

Patrick  Clark. 

1899- 

Chas.  J.  MacLean. 

In  the  earlier  years  the  dates  are  approximate  ;  it  is  probable  that  the  appointments 
were  not  permanent,  and  that  the  Clerk  did  not  attend  all  meetings. 


U 


APPENDIX  V. 


ALPHABETICAL  ROLL 

OF  THE 


INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS. 


GLASGOJV,  1905. 

Note. — An  asterisk  (*)  indicates  last  known  Address. 


No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Roll. 

2275 

Arnott,  Archibald 

W 

2283 

Alexander,  R.  F. 

H  &  W 

2284 

Alexander,  William 

W 

2285 

Alexander,  James 

H  &  W 

2339 

Anderson,  David  H. 

W 

2406 

Alston,  William  M. 

W 

2418 

Auchinvole,  John 

W 

2461 

Anderson,  Robert 

W 

2463 

Andrew,  Alexander 

W 

2.501 

Alexander,  Rev.  A.  B.  D. 

W 

2523 

Anderson,  John 

Dyer 

25.34 

Alexander,  Janies 

W 

2550 

Allardyce,  Charles 

Hammer 

2551 

Allardyce,  Archibald  M‘N. 

2560 

Aitken,  James  G. 

W 

2562 

Allan,  Alexander 

W 

2570 

Arthur,  Andrew 

W 

2571 

Arthur,  James 

W 

2572 

Arthur,  Thomas  G. 

w 

2573 

Arthur,  Sir  Matthew,  Bart. 

w 

2582 

Allan,  William  E. 

w 

2602 

Allan,  E.  J.  M. 

w 

2622 

Adam,  William 

w 

2626 

Allan,  William  Hadyn 

w 

2636 

Allan,  William 

w 

2685 

Allan,  James 

w 

2714 

Alexander,  Jas.  M. 

w 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

*221  St.  Vincent  Street  1871 

105  Clyde  Street,  Anders  ton  1871 

Solicitor,  Dunblane  1871 

105  Clyde  Street,  Anderston  1871 

Atlantic  Mills,  Bridgeton  1874 

24  Sardinia  Terrace  1878 

113  Virginia  Street  1878 

12  Princes  Square  1880 

22  Westminster  Terrace  1881 

Langbank  1883 

44  Maxwell  Drive,  Pollokshields  1884 
78  Miller  Street  1884 

12  Kidston  Street,  S.S.  1885 

75  Bucbanan  Street  1885 

30  George  Square  1885 

20  Montgomerie  Cottages, 

Scotstoun  1885 

78  Queen  Street  1885 

78  Queen  Street  1885 

78  Queen  Street  1885 

78  Queen  Street  1885 

43  Overdale  Street,  Langside  1885 

70  South  Portland  Street  1886 

5  Main  Street,  Anderston  1888 

223  NeAv  City  Road  1889 

117  Golfhill  Terrace,  Dennistoun  1890 

13  John  Street  1894 

1 1  Belmont  Crescent,  W.  1895 


APPENDIX. 

155 

No. 

Year 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Roll. 

Entry. 

2/15 

Alexander,  David  D. 

w 

11  Belmont  Crescent,  W. 

1895 

2781 

Anderson,  Dr.  William 

w 

The  Shrublands,  Leytonstone, 

London,  N.E. 

1899 

2849 

Aucliinvole,  Stewart  P. 

w 

113  Virginia  Place 

1903 

2872 

Andrew,  James 

Alexander,  Robt.  G. 

w 

160  West  George  Street 

1903 

2895 

w 

11  Belmont  Crescent,  Glasgow’ 

1904 

2896 

Artliur,  J.  Cecil 

w 

Fullarton,  Troon 

1904 

2324 

Bruce,  Henry 

w 

161  Roman  Road,  Bow,  London,  S. 

1873 

2354 

Brodie,  Robert 

c 

77  St.  Vincent  Street 

1876 

2357 

Bannerman,  Robert 

w 

16  Blythswood  Square 

1876 

2428 

Brown,  John 

w 

Enderly,  Bridge  of  Weir 

705  Sliields  Roail,  Pollokshields 

1879 

2429 

Brown,  Daniel 

w 

1879 

2430 

Brown,  David  R. 

w 

Victoria 

1879 

2431 

Brown,  Frank  H. 

Barclay,  Robert  B. 

w 

40  St.  Enoch  Square 

1879 

2465 

w 

Local  Government  Board,  Edin- 

Imrgh 

1881 

2470 

Brown,  Thos. 

w 

57  Cochrane  Street 

1881 

2512 

Brown,  Alex.  T. 

w 

6  Olrig  Terrace,  Pollokshields 

57  Cochrane  Street 

1882 

2513 

Brown,  John  H. 

w 

1883 

2514 

Brown,  Thomas  H. 

57  Cochrane  Street 

1883 

2589 

Brown,  Hugh 

Buchanan,  William 

w 

9  Clairmont  Gardens 

1885 

2610 

w 

21  North  St.  Mungo  Street 

1887 

2616 

Buchanan,  John 

w 

40  Clyde  Street,  Cal  ton 

1888 

26)7 

Buchanan,  James 

91  Abbott  Road,  Poplar,  London,  E. 

1888 

2677 

Baillie,  Janies 

B 

12  Wilson  Street,  Hillhead 

1894 

2678 

Buchanan,  John 

s 

27  Randolph  Gardens,  Partick 

139  Greenhead  Street,  Bridgeton 

1894 

2684 

Brown,  David  S. 

w 

1894 

2722 

Baillie,  J.  G.  A. 

Gardener 

Kentledge,  Ramsgate 

1895 

2730 

Booth,  James 

W 

13  Windsor  Street 

1895 

2731 

Brown,  Hugh,  jun. ,  C.A. 

W 

58  St.  Vincent  Street 

1896 

2732 

Brown,  Laurence  R. 

w 

9  Clairmont  Gardens 

1896 

2748 

Brown,  Nicol  P. 

w 

22  Bel  haven  Terrace 

1897 

2758 

Boyd,  Wm.,  jun.,  C.A. 
Brown,  Thos. 

w 

116  St.  Vincent  Street 

1898 

2763 

B 

352  Main  Street,  Bridgeton 

1899 

2771 

Bryce,  Chas.  C. 

43-45  Great  Tower  Street, 

London,  E.C. 

1899 

2778 

Brodie,  Wm. 

Cord 

77  St.  Vincent  Street 

1899 

2782 

Barr,  J  ohn 

W 

51  Camphill  Avenue,  Langside 

1899 

2830 

Brown,  Hugh  T. 

Brodie,  John  M‘Clure 

W 

111  French  Street,  Bridgeton 

1902 

2855 

W 

23  Belhaven  Terrace 

1903 

2856 

Brodie,  Thomson 

W 

23  Belhaven  Terrace 

1903 

2859 

Blackie,  Walter  W.,  B.Sc. 
Blyth,  Robt.  Oswald 

W 

17  Stanhope  Street 

1903 

2878 

W 

1  Montgomerie  Quadrant 

1903 

2898 

Black,  William  G. 

W 

88  West  Regent  Street 

1904 

2903 

Bissett,  Jas.  G. 

W 

Netherpark,  Largs 

1904 

2939 

Baird,  David 

B 

139  Greenhead  Terrace 

1905 

2940 

Baird,  Harry 

B 

Mossbank,  Gallowflat,  Rutherglen 

1905 

2296 

Crawford,  Thomas 

W 

113  Somerville  Drive,  Mount 

Florida 

1871 

2325 

Campbell,  James 

W 

c/o  Robert  Kennedy,  Argyle 

Villa,  Alloway,  Ayr 

1873 

15G  APPENDIX. 


No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

KoH. 

2335 

Couper,  John 

S 

2336 

Couper,  James 

w 

2364 

Campbell,  The  Right  Hon. 

J.  A.,  LL.D.,  M.P. 

w 

2365 

Clavering,  Thomas 

w 

2427 

Cunningham,  James 

Gardener 

2456 

Crawford,  David 

W 

2459 

Cubie,  Alexander  P. 

^V 

2488 

Carrick,  Janies  | 

w 

2497 

Clarke,  William 

w 

2517 

Caldwell,  John 

w 

2518 

Clark,  C.  L. 

w 

2542 

Caldwell,  Alex.  S. 

w 

2552 

Campbell,  William  A. 

w 

2553 

Campbell,  M.  Pearce 

w 

2555 

Couper,  John  G. 

w 

2598 

Caskie,  Dr.  W.  A. 

w 

2620 

Chesney,  Benjamin 

w 

2627 

Craighead,  William 

w 

2646 

Craig,  Hugh  J. 

w 

2673 

Cuzen,  Francis  G. 

w 

2706 

Campbell,  Colin 

w 

2711 

Cheriy,  Jas.  S. 

Maltman 

2712 

Cherry,  Win. 

Maltman 

2713 

Cherry,  Gavin  S. 

Maltman 

2741 

Carrick,  Peter  M. 

W 

2744 

Crosland,  Stanley  P. 

W 

2745 

Caldwell,  John,  jun. 

w 

2795 

Caldwell,  Jas.  T. 

w 

2826 

Campbell,  Jas.  C. 

w 

2834 

Couper,  David 

w 

2835 

Couper,  Thomas 

w 

2836 

Couper,  William  H. 

w 

2837 

Couper,  Jno.  Graham,  jun.. 

C.A.  W 

2838 

Couper,  Janies  H. 

W 

2843 

Crabb,  David 

W 

2887 

Craig,  Arch.  M. 

Campbell,  Adair 

w 

2894 

w 

2911 

Craig,  A.  Blackburn 

w 

2912 

Carmichael,  Rev.  Win. 

w 

2918 

Cooke,  David 

w 

2919 

Cooke,  James 

w 

2930 

Connell,  John 

w 

2294 

Downie,  James 

Dodd,  Robert  T. 

w 

2.341 

M 

2409 

Duncan,  James  A. 

Hammer 

2410 

Duncan,  Robert 

Hammer 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

Copeland  Villa,  22  Kelvinside 

Gardens  1874 

o99  Duke  Street  1874 

Stracathro,  Brechin  1876 

24  George  Square  1876 

20  Clarendon  Place,  Mount 

Preston,  Leeds  1879 

5  Clifton  Road,  Eccles,  Manchester  1880 
142  Main  Street,  Bridgeton  1880 

62  Argyle  Street  1882 

245  Buchanan  Street  1882 

Maryville  Lodge,  Uddingston,  West  1883 
Haytield,  Dunoon  1883 

Maryville  Lodge,  Uddingston,  West  1885 
137  Ingram  Street  1885 

137  Ingram  Street  1885 

21  Glassford  Street  1885 

1  Beechwood  Drive,  Jordanhill, 

Glasgow  1886 

22  Caledonia  Road  1888 

51  Whitevmle  Street  1889 

12  Hamilton  Drive,  Hillhead  1892 

Buchanan  Reti'eat,  Bearsden  1893 

1313  Pollokshaws  Road,  High 

Shawlands,  Glasgow  1895 

Mexico  1895 

102  Bath  Street  1895 

70  Bath  Street  1895 

9  Cartvale  Road,  Langside  1897 

*Glenville,  Gledholt,  Huddersfield  1897 
4  Kennyhill  Gardens,  Dennistoun  1897 

1  Kennyhill  Gardens,  Dennistoun  1900 

9  Lynedoch  Crescent  1902 

Bridgend  Works,  Dairy,  Ayrshire  1903 
21  Glassford  Street  1903 

21  Glassford  Street  1903 

The  Hollies,  Langbank  1903 

21  Glassford  Street  1903 

36  North  Frederick  Street  1903 

7  Robertson  Lane  1904 

137  Ingram  Street  1904 

41  St.  Vincent  Place  1905 

Crossknowe,  Torrance  1905 

631  Alexandra  Parade  1905 

93  Hutcheson  Street  1905 

Bennington,  Busby  1905 

57  Ingram  Street  1871 

61  Westmoreland  Street  1875 

Coltness  Iron  Co.,  138  West 

George  Street  1878 

Whitefield  Works,  Govan  1878 


APPENDIX.  157 


No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Roll. 

2487 

Davidson,  Arthur 

w 

2601 

Dawson,  Jolin 

Drj^sdale,  J  antes  T. 

w 

2606 

w 

2619 

Dreghorn,  David 

Mason 

2623 

Drysdale,  John  W.  W. 

^V 

2675 

Dunn,  David 

s 

2683 

Downie,  John  A. 

Downie,  Robert 

^v 

2704 

AV 

2710 

Downie,  James  M. 
Docherty,  James 

W 

2740 

W 

2762 

Downie,  John  S. 

^V 

2768 

Danskin,  William  R. 

W 

2808 

Danskin,  John  A. 

^\■ 

2827 

Dow,  John  Graham 

^V 

2829 

Dickson,  William  M. 

W 

2840 

Dunn,  Herbert 

W 

2841 

Dunn,  Bannatyne 

w 

2869 

Dunn,  James  D. 

w 

2885 

Dunn,  John 

H 

2886 

Dick,  Robt. 

W 

2905 

Docherty,  And. 

W 

2906 

Downie,  Dr.  J.  W. 

W 

2907 

Downie,  A.  M . 

W 

2921 

Downie,  Robert,  jun. 

W 

2384 

Ewing,  John 

W 

2408 

Easton,  John  M. 

w 

2420 

Easton,  Frederick  J. 

2580 

Eason,  Robert 

W 

2656 

Easton,  William  C. 

W 

2657 

Easton,  Duncan  T. 

W 

2788 

Eadie,  John 

W 

2240 

Fleming,  Michael  W. 

W 

2299 

Findlay,  James 

W 

2482 

Ferguson,  Alexander 

Barber 

2498 

Finlayson,  William 

W 

2536 

Frew,  James 

Fulton,  John 

W 

2537 

w 

2539 

Forrest,  R.  W.,  M.D. 

w 

2547 

Finlayson,  Wm.,  jun. 

Fyfe,  Henry  B. 

w 

2581 

w 

2604 

Fleming,  E.  B. 

Fleming,  William 

w 

2637 

w 

2676 

Findlay,  Win.  M. 

w 

2686 

Fisken,  James  J. 

w 

2785 

Frame,  Wm. 

w 

2815 

Fraser,  John 

\v 

2821 

Filshill,  Jas. 

w 

2874 

Forrest,  Thos. 

w 

2875 

Forrest,  Wm. 

w 

Year 

Address.  of 

Kntry. 

22  Argyle  Street  1882 

274  Lincoln  Place,  Particle  1887 

103  Bath  Street  1887 

Greenwood,  Nitlisdale  Drive, 

Pollokshields  1888 

183  Fordneuk  Street  1889 

7  Royal  Bank  Place  1894 

57  Ingram  Street  1894 

111  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun  1895 

Sunnyside,  Lenzie  1895 

94  George  Street,  Paissley  1897 

School  House,  Newton-lNleanis  1899 

25  Glencairn  Drive  1899 

Ardgowan,  Broadloan,  Renfrew  1901 

207  Ingram  Street  1902 

Glenroy  House,  Princes  Town, 

T  rinidail  1 902 

20  I’ark  Circus  1903 

20  Park  Circus  1903 

20  Park  Circus  1903 

29  Bellgrove  Street  1904 

19  Waterloo  Street  1904 

8  Miller  Street  1904 

4  Woodside  Crescent  1904 

4  Strathmore  Garilens,  Hillhead  1904 

111  Finlay  Di’ive,  Deunistoun  1905 

148  Renfrew  Street  1877 

Tordarroch,  Helenshurgli  1878 

London  1878 

*674  Gallowgate  1885 

Tordarroch,  Helensburgh  1893 

Tordarroch,  Helensburgh  1893 

69  Eglinton  Street  1900 

*97  Montrose  Street  1870 

GallowHat  House,  Rutherglen  1871 

116  St.  Vincent  Street  1881 

67  Roslea  Drive  1883 

15  Royal  Terrace,  Crossbill  1884 

31  Hanover  Street  1884 

319  Crown  Street  1884 

67  Roslea  Drive  1885 

115  St.  Vincent  Street  1885 

50  Renfrew  Street  1887 

138  Duke  Street  1890 

261  West  George  Street  1894 

73  Virginia  Street  1894 

5  Walmer  Terrace  1900 

177  Reid  Street,  Bridgeton  1902 

420  Gallowgate  1902 

1  Moray  Place,  Glasgow  1903 

114  Dixon  Avenue,  Crossbill  1903 


158  APPENDIX. 


No. 

oil  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Roll. 

2876 

Forrest,  Jas.  Dick 

w 

2877 

Forrest,  Robt.  W. 

Fyfe,  Alex.,  M.A. 

w 

2883 

w 

2884 

Fyfe,  Henry  H. 

w 

2933 

Fleming,  John 

w 

2942 

Fyfe,  Walter  W. 

w 

2943 

Fyfe,  John  E. 

w 

2161 

Graham,  Peter 

M 

2185 

Gourlay,  Robt.,  LL.D. 

5V 

2288 

Galloway,  Wm. 

Baker 

2426 

Gemmell,  Wm.  M. 

Gardener 

2479 

Gemmell,  Adam 

W 

2503 

Gemmell,  William 

W 

2519 

Graham,  Hugh 

w 

2.531 

Gibson,  George 

w 

2545 

Galbraith,  Robert  B. 

Dyer 

2642 

Gibb,  Andrew 

Wright 

2665 

Gray,  .John 

Gartshore,  Alex. 

W 

2666 

W 

2695 

Gardiner,  Wm. 

\v 

2699 

Graham,  David  J. 

w 

2707 

Gemmell,  John 

w 

2743 

Gray,  Wm. 

2809 

Gourlay,  .Jas. 

w 

2810 

Gourlay,  .John  W. ,  C.A. 

w 

2879 

Galbraith,  Robt.  .1. 

M' 

2880 

Galbraith,  Chas. 

W 

2897 

Guthrie,  And.  <J. 

W 

2908 

Gourlay,  Robt.  C. 

W 

2909 

Gourlay,  Robt.  J. 

5V 

2928 

Graham,  Arthur  11. 

Gray,  Alex.  S.  T. 

W 

2944 

2183 

Henry,  E.  W. 

IM 

2262 

Hutton,  .James,  C.A. 

W 

2303 

Hennedy,  David 

W 

2313 

Hunter,  John 

W 

2361 

Harvey,  Albert 

Henilerson,  John 

Horn,  Alex.  R. 

Halliday,  George 

Hamilton,  James 

2483 

Barber 

2521 

W 

2566 

W 

2658 

W 

2679 

Hewat,  Wm. 

W 

2681 

Houston,  Wm. 

2687 

Holmes,  A.  L. 

2723 

Hewat,  John 

W 

2724 

Hewat,  Wm.,  jtiii. 

W 

2725 

Hewat,  Henry  A. 

W 

2759 

Hunter,  .John 

W 

2769 

Houston,  John  S. 

W 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

114  Dixon  Avenue,  Crosshill  1903 

114  Dixon  Avenue,  Crossliill  1903 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant  1904 

16  Montg(mierie  Quadrant  1904 

138  Duke  Street  1905 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant  1905 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant  1905 

8  Albany  Street,  Nortli  Kelvinside  1861 

5  Marlborough  Terrace  1862 

52  Glas.sford  Street  1871 

44  Princes  Street,  I’olloksbields  1879 

57  West  Nile  Street  1881 

139  Greenliead  Street  1883 

*198  New  City  Hoad  1884 

17  Victoria  Crescent  1884 

35  Glassford  Street  1884 

Garthland,  Westcombe  Park  Hoad, 

Hlacklieath,  London,  S.E.  1891 

3  Maxwell  Terrace,  Pollokshields  1893 

43  Virginia  Street  1893 

The  Kachan,  Helensburgh  1895 

109  St.  Peter’s  Koad,  Leicester  1895 

211  Greenliead  Street  1895 

44  Maxwell  Drive  1897 

11  Crown  Gardens,  Dowanhill  1901 

124  St.  Vincent  Street  1901 

4  West  Regent  Street  1904 

35  Glassford  Street  1904 

29  West  George  Street  1904 

Caledonian  Engine  Works,  Paisley  1905 
Bank  of  Scotland,  Glasgow  1905 

107  Bnchanan  Street  1905 

3  Maxwell  Terrace,  Pollokshields  1905 

The  City  Liberal  Club,  Wallbrook, 

London,  E.C.  1862 

203  West  George  Street  1869 

10  Prince’s  Square  1872 

54  London  Road,  Kilmarnock  1872 

2  Park  Terrace,  East  1876 

34  Dunearn  Street  1881 

Clydesdale  Bank,  Limited,  Glasgow  1884 
1  Broomhill  Terrace,  Partick  1885 

19  Wilson  Street  1893 

22  Queen  Mary  Avenue,  Crosshill  1894 

59  St.  Vincent  Street  1894 

13  John  Street  1894 

22  Queen  Mary  Avenue  1895 

22  Queen  Mary  Avenue  1895 

22  Queen  Mary  Avenue  1895 

79  Fotheringay  Road,  Maxwell  Park  1898 
59  St.  Vincent  Street  1899 


APPENDIX. 

159 

No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

Year 

of 

Roll. 

2791 

Harvey,  Wm.  A.,  C.A. 

w 

2  Park  Terrace,  East 

Entry. 

1900 

2792 

Harvey,  Geo.  T. 

w 

2  Park  Terrace,  East 

1900 

2793 

Harvey,  Wilson 

\v 

2  Park  Terrace,  East 

1900 

2794 

Harvey,  Thos. 

w 

2  Park  Terrace,  East 

Locliend,  Glengarnock 

1900 

2796 

Hamilton,  Robert 

w 

1901 

2804 

Houston,  Jas.  E. 

w 

1  Seyton  Avenue,  Langside 

21  Bothwell  Street 

1901 

2904 

Headrick,  Robt. 

w 

1904 

2935 

Hirst,  Fred.  W. 

w 

Mountjoy  Road,  Huddersfield 

1905 

2947 

Holmes,  Jas.  A. 

13  John  Street 

1905 

2476 

Inglis,  Lawrence  R. 

w 

34  Garturk  Street,  Crosshill 

1881 

2820 

Innes,  Gilbert 

w 

21  Glassford  Street 

1902 

2824 

Inverclyde,  Lord 

w 

Castle  Wemyss,  Wemyss  Bay 

1902 

2250 

Johnston,  William 

w 

11  Derby  Crescent,  Kelvinside 

1868 

2251 

Johnston,  John 

w 

6  Fitzroy  Place,  Sauchiehall  Street 

1868 

2298 

Johnstone,  T.  R. 

w 

Italy 

1871 

2460 

Jenkins,  Thomas 

w 

27  Pitt  Street 

1880 

2717 

Johnston,  John  D. 

w 

6  Fitzroy  Place,  Sauchiehall  Street 
6  Fitzroy  Place,  Sauchiehall  Street 

1895 

2718 

Johnston,  Wm. 

w 

1895 

2193 

Knox,  John 

w 

Airedale  Shed,  Silsden,  via  Keigh¬ 

2421 

Knox,  Robert  A. 

w 

ley,  Yorks. 

5  Park  Quadrant 

1863 

1878 

2575 

Kay,  John  R. 

w 

78  Queen  Street 

1885 

2576 

Kedie,  Robert 

w 

146  Argyle  Street 

1885 

2590 

Knox,  Robert  M. 

w 

47  Crowupoint  Road,  Mile  End 

1886 

2591 

Knox,  John  S. 

w 

10  Clayton  Terrace,  Dennistoun 

1886 

2615 

Kidston,  James  B. 

Barber 

50  West  Regent  Street 

1888 

2624 

Kyd,  Alexander 

W 

980  Polloksh<aws  Road 

1888 

2628 

Kidston,  William 

Barber 

50  West  Regent  Street 

1889 

2643 

Kerr,  John  E. 

Skinner 

Harviestoun  Castle,  Dollar 

1891 

2753 

Kirkpatrick,  Hubert  V. 

W 

5  Park  Terrace 

1898 

2738 

Kirkpatrick,  Duncan  T. 

W 

5  Park  Terrace 

1896 

2739 

Kirkpatrick,  Thomas  A. 

W 

5  Park  Terrace 

1896 

2787 

Kidd,  Alex. 

T 

239  Ingram  Street 

1900 

2832 

Kay,  Arthur 

W 

78  Queen  Street 

1903 

2868 

Kidd,  Henry  A. 

W 

571  Sauchiehall  Street 

1903 

2899 

Knox,  John,  jun. 

W 

Silsden,  Yorks. 

1904 

2900 

Knox,  Wm. 

Silsden,  Yorks. 

1904 

2922 

Kinghorn,  John  P. 

Wright 

105  West  George  Street 

1905 

2217 

Leggatt,  Rev.  Wm. 

W 

2  James  Street,  Greenhead 

1865 

2446 

Lyle,  George 

W 

Clelland’s  Land,  Bisbopbriggs 

107  Bishop  Street,  North 

1880 

2472 

Leggat,  Robt. 

w 

1881 

2481 

Logan,  Lieut. -Col.  C.  A. 

w 

Denovan  House,  Denny 

1881 

2535 

Legate,  James 

Laughland,  James 

M 

1  Queensborough  Drive,  Hyndland 

1884 

2584 

W 

71  Mitchell  Street 

1885 

2663 

Logan,  David 

W 

Thrums,  Shettleston 

1893 

2737 

Lumsden,  Harry,  M.A.,LL.B. 

W 

105  West  George  Street 

1896 

2751 

Lyle,  John 

W 

10  Fordneuk  Street 

1897 

2772 

Legate,  Francis 

W 

1  Queensborough  Drive,  Hyndland 

1899 

2773 

Legate,  Alex.  B.  S, 

\V 

1  Queensborough  Drive,  Hyndland 

1899 

160 

APPENDIX. 

No. 

• 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

1  Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

2789 

Laird,  Alex. 

w 

24  Dixon  Avenue,  Cro.sshill 

1900 

2852 

Lindsay,  Malcolm  W. 

w 

2  AVest  Regent  >Street 

1903 

2860 

Lyle,  .Jolin  E. 

w 

10  P'ordneuk  Street 

1903 

2215 

Miller,  Alex. 

w 

3  AVind.sor  Quadrant,  Kelvinside 

1865 

22.32 

Mair,  John  S. 

w 

Mount  Hermon,  Helensburgh 

1869 

2261 

Mitchell,  Andrew 

M" 

6  Jjilybank  Gardens,  Hillhead 

1869 

2267 

Miller,  Robert 

186  Trongate 

1870 

2270 

Maltnian,  Thomas 

W 

34  Wilton  Gardens 

1870 

2297 

Murdoch,  Robert 

Hammer. 

National  Bank,  Dundee 

1871 

2302 

Muir,  Robert 

W 

London 

1872 

2348 

Mair,  Charles  S. 

AV 

Tigh-na-rnara,  Bone,  Algeria 

35  Miller  Street 

1875 

2392 

Mitchell,  Angus 

C  & 

1877 

2405 

Minnoch,  Wm.  H. 

W 

17  Park  Terrace,  Stirling 

1878 

2411 

Murray,  Robert 

W 

128  Bothwell  Street 

1878 

2412 

Murray,  John  T. 

AV 

309  Golfhill  Drive 

1878 

2473 

Miller,  John 

AA" 

105  Buccleuch  Street 

1881 

2495 

Mitchell,  Angus,  jun. 

A\' 

8  Clarence  Drive,  Hyndland 

177  Ledard  Road,  Langside 

1881 

2496 

Mitchell,  John  M‘P. 

AA^ 

1882 

2529 

Marshall,  John 

AV 

Alma  Place,  Shawlands 

1884 

2554 

Mann,  Janies 

AA' 

21  Glassford  Street 

1885 

2588 

Munsie,  Robert  G. 

AA^ 

34  Gray  Street,  AA^. 

1885 

2600 

Mason,  Thomas 

Mason 

21  Clyde  Place 

1886 

2603 

Muir,  James  I>. 

AA" 

471  Rutherglen  Road 

1886 

26.55 

Morrice,  James 

AV 

104  Cecil  Street,  Manchester 

1892 

2682 

Mitcliell,  Wm. 

AV 

Glencairn,  Crossbill 

1894 

2701 

Manson,  And.  I). 

B  &  D 

104  Hy depark  Street 

1895 

2726 

Milieu,  James  A. 

AV 

33/35  Commerce  Street 

1895 

2746 

Milne,  James 

AV 

Upper  Craigwells,  Netherley,  by 
Stonehaven,  Kincardineshire 

1897 

2750 

Mann,  Robert  M. 

AV 

21  Glassford  Street 

1897 

2761 

Mitchell,  Janies  T. 

C 

137  Ingram  Street 

1898 

2783 

Monro,  Thos.  K.,  .M.A. 

,  AJ.D.  AV 

10  Clairniont  Gardens 

1899 

2790 

Marshall,  David 

A\' 

Horrockses,  Crewdson  &  Co.,  Ld., 
107  Piccadilly,  Manchester 

1900 

2844 

Mason,  Tlios.,  jun. 

M 

Craigiehall,  Bellahouston 

1903 

2845 

Mason,  Robt.  W. 

M 

Craigiehall,  Bellahouston 

1903 

2850 

Manson,  Wm.  Hyslop, 

M.A.  AV 

Avenue  Villa,  Mansion  House  Road, 
Langside 

1903 

2888 

Muir,  Rev.  Win.,  B.D. 

AV 

St.  Andrews  LT.F.  Manse,  Blair¬ 
gowrie 

1904 

2902 

Mowat,  .Joseph  G. 

H 

50  AA^'eHington  Street 

1904 

2917 

Morton,  David  S. 

AV 

309  Dobbie’s  Loan 

1905 

2920 

Marshall,  Geo.  R. 

AV 

703  Cathcart  Road 

1905 

1952 

MT.,ellan,  Malcolm 

M 

3  Clairmont  Gardens 

1838 

2110 

M'Lellan,  Donald 

W 

Ardmay,  1  Eglinton  Drive 

1851 

2141 

M'Lintock,  Walter 

AV 

25  Sydney  Street,  Saltcoats 

1858 

2156 

M‘Jjellan,  George 

AV 

Allan  Bank,  Kilmalcolm 

1861 

2186 

Macpherson,  Henry  S. 
M'Laren,  Alexander 

AV 

62  Queen  Street 

1862 

2234 

AV 

532  East  Prospect  Street,  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  U.S.A. 

1867 

2282 

Macfarlane,  John 

AV 

19  Sydney  Street 

1871 

APPENDIX. 


161 


No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Roll. 

2387 

Maclean,  David,  C.A. 

Maltman 

2433 

MacLean,  Chas.  J. 

W 

2489 

M ‘Connell,  Roht. 

W 

2490 

M ‘Connell,  Thomas 

w 

2491 

M‘Connell,  William 

w 

2492 

M‘Connell,  John 

w 

2500 

M‘Dougall,  Robert 

w 

2524 

Macfarlane,  Mai.,  M.A. 

Barber 

2530 

Macpherson,  James  G. 

W 

2568 

Macfarlane,  Thomas 

w 

2596 

M‘Allister,  W^  S. 

w 

2608 

M‘Lintock,  Walter,  jun. 

w 

2614 

M‘Dougall,  James 

w 

2629 

M‘Kinnon,  Archibald 

w 

2640 

M'Leod,  Thos.  C. 

w 

2641 

M‘Ewan,  Robt.  D. 

M‘Culloch,  John  L. 

w 

2644 

w 

2645 

M‘Kechnie,  James 

2654 

M‘Lean,  John  Allan 

H 

2661 

Mactie,  Wm. 

W 

2680 

M‘Culloch,  John 

W 

2697 

M‘Nish,  Geo.  S. 

w 

2698 

M‘Nish,  John  S. 

w 

2702 

Maclay,  Jos.  P. 

w 

2703 

Maclay,  Wm.  P. 

w 

2716 

M‘Dougall,  Wm. 

w 

2719 

Maclay,  Wm. 

R 

2736 

M'Culloch,  David  W. 

W 

2742 

M‘Dougall,  Allan 

W 

2749 

MacNaughton,  Rev.  Geo. 

F.  A. 

W 

2764 

M‘Nair,  Thomas 

W  right 

2770 

M'Allister,  Jas. 

W 

2774 

M‘Kenzie,  John 

W 

2779 

MacDougall,  Jas.,  jun. 

w 

2780 

MacLeod,  Fred.  L. 

w 

2805 

M‘Kenzie,  John,  jun. 

w 

2806 

Macpherson,  Thomas  W. 

w 

2813 

Maclay,  R.  M.,  C.A. 

w 

2814 

MacLean,  Wm. 

w 

2857 

MacLean,  Archd.  Campbell  H. 

w 

2867 

M‘Kay,  George  H. 

w 

2870 

M‘Intyre,  Thos.  W. 

H 

2881 

Mackinlay,  Chas.  A. 

W 

2901 

Macindoe,  Alex. 

C 

2913 

Maclay,  John  C. 

B 

2914 

Maclay,  Kenneth 

B 

2923 

Macalister,  David  R. 

W 

2938 

Maclay,  Arthur  A. 

B 

2945 

Macleod,  D.  Macfarlane 

W 

2946 

Macnair,  Donald  F. 

W 

Year 

Arldress.  of 

Entry. 

10  Somerset  Place  1877 

115  St.  Vincent  Street  1879 

5  Clyde  Street,  Helensburgh  1882 

*20  Windsor  Terrace  1882 

Royal  Laundry,  Wliiteinch  1882 

c/o  Cruickshanks,  325  Hutcheson 

Square  1882 

138  West  Regent  Street  1883 

School  House,  Rridge  of  Allan  1884 

62  Queen  Street  1884 

39  Miller  Street  1885 

96  Rentield  Street  1886 

*112  Parson  Street  1887 

27  Call’d  Drive,  Partick  1888 

*139  Greenhead  Street  1890 

142  St.  Vincent  Street  1891 

22  Montrose  Street  1891 

15  Castle  Street  1891 

79  John  Knox  Street  1891 

Havanna,  Cuba  1892 

26  Bishop  Street,  Rothesay  1893 

421  Gallowgate  1894 

55  Washington  Street  1895 

55  Washington  Street  1895 

21  Bothwell  Street  1895 

104  Hydepark  Street  1895 

284  Bath  Street  1895 

5  Waterloo  Street  1895 

*66  Evelyn  Street,  Dennistoun  1896 

149  West  George  Street  1897 

The  Manse,  Carsphairn  1897 

27  St.  Vincent  Place  1899 

.541  Duke  Street  1899 

103  Burnside  Street  1899 

27  Caird  Drive,  Partick  1899 

142  St.  Vincent  Street  1899 

103  Burnside  Street  1901 

62  Queen  Street  1901 

209  West  George  Street  1901 

3  Grosvenor  Crescent  1901 

The  Royal  Scots,  Kamptee  C.P. , 

India  1903 

40  Dumbarton  Road  1903 

21  Both’well  Street  1903 

28  Dohbie’s  Loan  1904 

104  West  George  Street  1904 

5  Waterloo  Street  1904 

21  St.  Vincent  Place  1905 

106  Cowcaddens  Street  1905 

Thornwood,  Langside  1905 

47  Mornington  Road,  Bow,  London  1905 

41  St.  Vincent  Place  1905 


X 


APPENDIX. 


162 


No. 
on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

Year 

of 

Roll. 

•2435 

Newlands,  James 

w 

Rio,  Brazil 

Entry 

1879 

2436 

Newlands,  Joseph  F. 

Ness,  Robert 

w 

105  West  George  Street 

1879 

2442 

\v 

19  Woodside  Place,  W. 

1879 

2454 

Newstead,  Thomas 

Dilston,  Bertroliill,  Shettleston 

1880 

2721 

Noble,  Walter  D. 

w 

21  Glassford  Street 

1895 

2882 

Newlands,  Geo.  F. 

w 

135  St.  Vincent  Street 

1904 

2579 

O’May,  Thomas 

w 

14  Circus  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1885 

2652 

Orr,  Thomas 

w 

22  Fox  Street 

1892 

2669 

Orr,  Will.  Yuille 

w 

22  Fox  Street 

1893 

2833 

Ogilvie,  Herbert 

w 

78  Queen  Street 

1903 

2889 

Ogilvie,  Cecil 

w 

78  Queen  Street 

1904 

2301 

Paterson,  Wra.  Scott 

w 

21  Kelvinside  Terrace,  South 

1872 

2311 

Paterson,  Andrew 

w 

Hapland,  Helensburgh 

1872 

2321 

Patrick,  George 

w 

15  Smith’s  Court,  Candleriggs 

1873 

2383 

Pollock,  Rev.  John 

w 

7  Glandon  Park,  Belfast 

1877 

2453 

Paterson,  John 

M 

Shettleston 

1880 

2468 

Paterson,  Robt.  G. 

w 

c/o  Jas.  Paterson  &  Co.,  Newhall 

2504 

Paterson,  James 

w 

Street,  Bridgeton 

69  Park  Drive  South,  Whiteinch 

1881 

1883 

2516 

Paterson,  Robert 

Paterson,  Janies  C.,  C.A. 

w 

John  Street  Public  School 

1883 

2526 

w 

63  St.  Vincent  Street 

1884 

2527 

Paterson,  Robert  S. 

w 

22  West  Nile  Street 

1884 

2593 

Paul,  Thomas  A. 

w 

Dunarden,  Helensburgh 

1885 

2612 

Paterson,  Wni.  ISI. 

w 

27  Baskerville  Road,  Wandsworth 

2621 

Peebles,  James 

w 

Common,  London,  S.W. 

*13  Welltield  Street,  Springburn 

1888 

1888 

2631 

Paterson,  Alexander  N. , 
M.A.,  A.R.I.R.A. 

w 

266  St.  Vincent  Street 

1890 

2662 

Place,  Janies 

Cordiner 

42  Kersland  Street,  Hillhead 

1893 

■2688 

Pomphrey,  Geo.  G. 

W 

137  Ingram  Street 

1894 

2767 

Peebles,  Wm. 

w 

*5  Dunchattan  Street 

1899 

2890 

Parker,  Jas.  H.,  C.A. 

w 

89  West  Regent  Street 

1904 

2941 

Paterson,  George 

w 

376  St.  Vincent  Street 

1905 

2264 

Robson,  Janies 

w 

Flower  Bank,  Cljmder 

1870 

2.320 

Robb,  William 

w 

*Ailsa  Tower,  Dunoon 

1873 

2401 

Rae,  William 

w 

818  New  City  Road 

1878 

2484 

Reid,  Robert,  C.A. 

w 

40  St.  Vincent  Place 

1881 

2586 

Robertson,  John 

w 

Clydebank  Finishing  Works, 

2609 

Ramsay,  William  S. 

w 

Rutherglen 

6  Ruthv'en  Street,  Hillhead 

1884 

1887 

•2651 

Russell,  William 

w 

Woodend,  Langside 

1892 

2690 

Reid,  Robert  A. 

w 

125  Buchanan  Street 

1895 

2696 

Robertson,  James 

w 

137  West  Regent  Street 

1895 

2705 

Rae,  John  B. 

w 

818  New  City  Road 

1895 

2727 

Robertson,  Andrew 

w 

Trearne  Cottage,  AA'ellshothill, 

2729 

Reid,  John 

w 

Cambuslang 

61  Henderson  Street 

1895 

1895 

2752 

Reid,  Henry  A. 

w 

108  West  George  Street 

1898 

2777 

Reid,  James  A. 

Wright 

172  St.  Vincent  Street 

1  Derby  Crescent,  Kelvinside 

1899 

2811 

Reid,  A.  Roger 

Wright 

1901 

APPENDIX. 


163 


No. 


on  the 
Roll. 

1  Name. 

Craft. 

2812 

Reid,  Robert  A.  M. 

AA'right 

2816 

Robertson,  Archibald 

AV 

2817 

Reid,  Hugh 

AV 

2831 

Reid,  John 

Hammer 

2842 

Rew,  Angus, 

AV 

2848 

Ritchie,  AVm. 

AV 

2892 

Reid,  Geo.  L. 

AV 

2893 

Reid,  Hugh  Y. 

AV 

2915 

Reid,  Rev.  Edward  T.  S. 

AV 

2925 

Ru.ssell,  James 

AV 

2931 

Russell,  AA'illiam  E. 

AV 

2932 

Russell,  John 

AV 

2274 

Stewart,  John  Gilchrist 

AV 

2329 

Stobo,  David 

AV 

23.50 

Stewart,  James  T. 

AV 

2373 

Scott,  Innes  AA". 

AV 

2377 

Steele,  Robert  1. 

Barber 

2378 

Steven,  Alex.  F. 

W 

2379 

Steven,  Robert  M. 

AV 

2382 

Smith,  William 

AV 

2389 

Steven,  Peter 

AV 

2395 

Steven,  Andrew 

AA’right 

2414 

Sandeman,  Boswell 

W 

2416 

Seton,  William  C. 

AV 

2448 

Salmon,  Peter 

AV 

2485 

Smith,  AVilliam,  jun. 

AV 

2505 

Stewart,  George 

AV 

2515 

Sturgeon,  AVilliam 

AV 

2520 

Sloan,  James 

M 

2525 

Sloan,  George 

AV 

2545 

Stewart,  John  S. 

W 

2546 

Stewart,  Ninian  B. 

AV 

2558 

Smith,  AA’^illiam  A. 

AV 

2563 

Stout,  John  S. 

Cordiner 

2564 

Service,  Andrew  G. 

Gardener 

2577 

Sloan,  James  R. 

W 

2587 

Service,  John 

AV 

2613 

Speirs,  Archibald 

W 

2632 

Stewart,  James  B. 

AV 

2633 

Stewart,  AVilliam  H. 

AV 

2634 

Stewart,  John  L. 

W 

2653 

Sutherland,  George 

W 

2691 

Smith,  John  B. 

W 

2692 

Smith,  Alex.  D. 

W 

2720 

Service,  William  S. 

Gardener 

2734 

Smith,  George 

AV 

Year 

Arldress.  of 

Entry. 

1  Derby  Crescent,  Kelvinsule  1901 

51  James  Street,  Calton  1902 

13  Victoria  Buildings,  Sliettleston  1902 
Hydepark  Locomotive  Works, 

Springburn  1903 

2  Wellfield  Terrace,  Springburn  1903 

77  Queen  Street  1903 

AVlndsor  Place,  Sliettleston  1904 

13  A^ictoria  Buildings,  Sliettleston  1904 
St.  Cutbbert’s  Church,  Hawick  1905 

23  Fortis  Green  Road,  East 

Finchley,  London  1905 

32  Fortis  Green  Road,  East 

Finchley,  London  1905 

AVoodend,  Lethington  Avenue, 

Langside  1905 

Hilda,  Balshagray  Avenue  1871 

205  Langside  Road  1873 

96  Byres  Road  1875 

*12  Princes  Terrace  1876 

137  Ingram  Street  1876 

43  Queen’s  Square,  Queen’s  Park  1876 

176  Ingram  Street  1876 

119  Argyle  Street  1877 

Applegarth,  Helensburgh  1877 

3  Granville  Gardens,  Newcastle- 

on-Tyne  1877 

St.  Ronan’s,  Lenzie  1878 

*283  High  Street  1878 

Sandyhills,  Shettle.ston  1880 

*Torwood,  Helensburgh  1882 

68  Mitchell  Street  1883 

205  Albert  Road,  Pollokshields  1883 

*1  Royal  Bank  Place  1884 

8  Gordon  Street  1884 

21  Buchanan  Street  1885 

21  Buchanan  Street  1885 

6  South  Hanover  Street  1885 

c/o  Mrs.  Thomson,  129  AVhitehill 

Street  1885 

27  St.  Vincent  Place  1885 

Southfield,  Queen’s  Drive  1885 

71  Mitchell  Street  1885 

74  Canning  Street  1888 

96  Byres  Road  1890 

205  Hojic  Street  1890 

96  Byres  Road  1890 

34  Granby  Terrace  1892 

12  Waterloo  Street  1895 

96  Springfield  Avenue  1895 

208  St.  Vincent  Street  1895 

141  St.  Vincent  Street  1896 


164 

APPENDIX. 

No. 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

2735 

Smith,  Robert  W. 

w 

141  St.  Vincent  Street 

1896 

2747 

Stirling,  Hugh  A. 

w 

133  St.  Vincent  Street 

1897 

2755 

Steven,  John  M. 

w 

115  Stirling  Road 

1898 

2756 

Steven,  William  D. 

w 

Supt. ,  India  General  Steam 
Navigation  Co.,  Calcutta 

1898 

2757 

Steven,  Peter  A.,  M.D. 
Smith,  James  W. 

w 

Ripon 

1898 

2766 

w 

73  Earl’s  Park  Avenue,  Newlands, 
Glasgow 

1899 

2776 

Scott,  Tliomas 

w 

153  Queen  Street 

1899 

2786 

Stockdale,  H.  F. 

Barber 

38  Bath  Street 

1900 

2819 

Stewart,  R.  B. 

W 

146  Argyle  Street 

10  Prince’s  Square,  Buchanan  Street 

1902 

2839 

Suttie,  Robert 

w 

1903 

2846 

Strang,  Andrew  S. 

w 

201  Greenhead  Street 

1903 

2853 

Smart,  A.  Wilson,  C.A. 

w 

66  Bath  Street 

1903 

2854 

Smart,  Lewis  A. 

w 

Birkheck  Bank  Chambers,  Holborn, 
London 

1903 

2916 

Shaw,  James 

w 

101  St.  Vincent  Street 

1905 

2295 

Thomson,  John  Shaw 

w 

16  Watling  Street,  London,  E.C. 

1871 

2375 

Taylor,  Gilbert 

w 

46  West  George  Street 

1876 

2376 

Thom,  James 

w 

150  Ingram  Street 

1876 

2438 

Thomson,  George 

w 

100  Great  Hamilton  Street 

1879 

2455 

Thomson,  James 

w 

Monnt  Royd,  Park  Drive,  Hud¬ 
dersfield 

1880 

2522 

Taylor,  William 

Thomson,  John 

w 

16  Whitehill  Street,  Dennistoun 

1884 

2557 

w 

394  Paisley  Road,  W. 

1885 

2569 

Tillie,  William  J. 

w 

39  Miller  Street 

1885 

2594 

Telford,  Robert 

w 

Arouca,  Rutherglen 

112  Nithsdale  Road,  Pollokshields 

1886 

2605 

Tod,  Alexander  W. 

w 

1887 

2828 

Taylor,  William 

w 

180  West  George  Street 

1902 

2858 

Thomson,  H.  J. 

w 

147  Bath  Street 

1903 

2891 

Turner,  John 

Taylor,  Frederick 

w 

27  King  Street,  Liverpool 

1904 

2926 

w 

49  Jamaica  Street 

1905 

2927 

Todd,  Thomas  C. 

w 

30  Gordon  Street 

1905 

2934 

Tod,  Thomas 

w 

26  Queen  Street 

40  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 

1905 

2936 

Taylor,  John 

w 

1905 

2502 

Urquhart,  Robert  D. 

Maltman 

42  India  Street,  Edinburgh 

1883 

2223 

Watson,  Joseph 

w 

3  Mansfield  Place,  High  Street, 
Rothesay 

1866 

2272 

Winning,  James 

w 

1  Prince’s  Square,  48  Buchanan 
Street 

1870 

2290 

Wilson,  Samuel 

w 

Greenkerse,  Cornton,  Bridge  of 
Allan 

1871 

2314 

Wallace,  James 

w 

45  Arlington  Street 

1872 

2332 

Woodrow,  Alex. 

w 

75  Glassford  Street 

1874 

2333 

Wilson,  Peter  B. 

w 

114  Trongate 

1874 

2340 

Wilson,  John,  jun. 

w 

12D  Duke  Street 

1875 

2380 

Watson,  Thomas 

M 

9  Belhaven  Terrace 

1876 

2419 

Wallace,  John 

W 

229  Norfolk  Street,  Dorchester, 
Boston,  U.S.A. 

1878 

2439 

Wright,  Robert  H. 

W 

188  South  Woodside  Road 

1879 

APPENDIX. 

165 

No. 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entrv. 

2457 

Wilson,  James 

W 

15  Cleveland  Street 

1880 

2458 

Wilson,  IMicliael 

w 

13  John  Knox  Street 

1880 

2493 

Wylie,  David  V. 

w 

102  Rath  Street 

1882 

2508 

Wilson,  William 

AY 

15  Edmund  Street,  Dennistoun 

1883 

2509 

Wilson,  Robert 

AY 

Mayfield,  Falkirk 

1883 

2510 

Wilson,  James,  jun. 

Wilson,  Gilbert  T. 

AY 

Rantaskin,  F’alkirk 

1883 

2511 

AY 

Rantaskin,  F'alkirk 

1883 

2528 

White,  Adam 

AY 

104  AYest  George  Street 

1884 

2567 

Wilson,  Thomas  M. 

Hammer 

42  Glassford  Street 

1885 

2599 

Wylie,  Robert 

Mason 

354  Paisley  Road 

1886 

2611 

Watson,  James  M. 

\Y 

7  Kenilworth  Avenue,  AA".  Didsbury, 
near  Manchester 

1888 

2647 

Wallace,  John  R. 

Maltman 

60  Ridston  Road,  Rirkenhead 

1892 

2648 

Waddel,  Alex. 

AY 

Aldworth,  Kilmalcolm 

1892 

2649 

Waddel,  John 

AY 

Invereck,  Kilmalcolm 

1892 

2650 

Wilson,  Andrew  M. 

Cooper 

168  Oxford  Street 

1892 

2664 

Woodrow,  Alex.  N. 

AY 

75  Glassford  Street 

1893 

2668 

Wright,  David  C. 

Hammer 

87  Meadowpark  Street 

1893 

2689 

Wilson,  Edwin  C. 

W 

Rantaskin,  Falkirk 

1895 

2694 

Watson,  Hugh,  jun. 

AY 

61  North  Craigpark  Street,  Den¬ 
nistoun 

1895 

2700 

Wallace,  Arch.  C. 

Hammer 

71  AA'est  Nile  Street 

1895 

2708 

Winning,  Henry  D. 

AY 

1  Prince’s  Square,  48  Ruchanan 
Street 

1895 

2733 

Wood  burn,  William  D. 

F 

22  Eldon  Street,  Greenock 

1896 

2754 

Wollheim,  Chas.  L. 

Wright,  Daniel 

AY 

*Rath  House,  Ruxton 

1898 

2760 

H 

11  Rannatyne  Avenue 

1898 

2784 

Wilkie,  Connal  A. 

W 

72  Tobago  Street 

1901 

2807 

Wright,  John  G.  G. 

VY 

10  New  Rurlington  Street,  London 

1901 

2822 

Webster,  James 

W 

103  AA’est  George  Street 

1902 

2823 

Wilson,  David,  D.L.,  D.Sc. 

AY 

Of  Carbeth,  Killearn 

1902 

2825 

Walker,  Andrew 

Gardener 

43  Glassford  Street 

1902 

2851 

Watson,  Jas.  Muir 

AY 

13  Rellgrove  Street 

1903 

2861 

Wat.“on,  Walter  M. 

Wilson,  Jas.,  tertius 

AY 

Airedale  Shed,  Silsden,  York 

1903 

2862 

AY 

Mayheld,  Falkirk 

1903 

2863 

Wilson,  John  Ross 

AY 

Mayfield,  F'alkirk 

1903 

2864 

Wilson,  Tom  Taylor 

AY 

Mayfield,  F’alkirk 

1903 

2865 

Wilson,  Robert,  jun. 

AY 

Mayfield,  F’alkirk 

1903 

2866 

Wilson,  Cecil  Guy 

AY 

Mayfield,  F’alkirk 

1903 

2871 

Wishart,  John 

H 

Oakbank  Oil  Co.,  39  St.  Vincent 
Place 

1903 

2910 

Woodburn,  Wm.  H. 

W 

17  Carlton  Place,  S.S. 

1904 

2924 

Wright,  David 

W 

57  Reidvale  Street 

1905 

2929 

Weston,  John  H. 

AY 

17  West  Register  Street,  Edinburgh 

1905 

2937 

Webster,  Jas.  Manuel 

103  West  George  Street 

1905 

2355 

Young,  James 

W 

92  Union  Street 

1876 

2356 

Young,  John  E. 

W 

92  U nion  Street 

1876 

2425 

Young,  Janies 

Skinner 

52  Dundas  Street,  Kingston 

1878 

2543 

Younger,  George  W. 

W 

14  Prince’s  Square,  Ruchanan  Street 

1885 

2544 

Younger,  Robert  T. 

W 

Advocate,  Edinburgh 

1885 

2548 

Yuill,  William 

AY 

39  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1885 

2595 

Young,  William  G. ,  M.D. 

W 

22  Monteith  Row 

1886 

166 

APPENDIX. 

No. 

oti  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

Year 

of 

Roll. 

2728 

Young,  Robt.  F. 

w 

Dunkeld,  Huchanan  Drive,  Cainbus- 

Entry. 

2797 

Young,  James  H. 

w 

lang 

92  Union  Street 

1895 

1901 

2798 

Young,  K.  M. 

w 

92  Union  Street 

1901 

2799 

Young,  Harry  A. 

w 

24  Belhaven  Terrace 

1901 

2800 

Young,  John  E.,  jun. 

w 

2nd  Lieut.,  R.S.F. 

53  Mill  Street,  Bridgeton 

1901 

2801 

Young,  John  R. 

w 

1901 

2802 

Young,  George  R. 

w 

8  Claremont  Terrace 

1901 

2803 

Young,  Robert  F. 

w 

8  Claremont  Terrace 

1901 

2847 

Yuill,  Hugh 

w 

34  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1903 

2873 

Yuill,  Arthur 

w 

93  Candlerigg.s 

1903 

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APPENDIX  VI. 


INVENTORY  OF  OLD  MINUTE  BOOKS, 
CHARTERS,  DEEDS, 

AND  OTHER  RECORDS  BELONGING  TO  THE 
INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS. 


By  GEORGE  NEILSON,  Esq.,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.,  Ere. 


I. — ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  HISTORY  OF  THE  CRAFT. 

Minute  Books,  Charters,  and  Records. 

1. — Minute  Book,  1591-1611.  1 

}  For  extracts  see  Chap.  I.  et  sea. 

2. — Minute  Book,  1611-1686.  j 

3.  — Minute  Book,  1791-1795. 

4.  — Minute  Book,  1795-1810. 

5.  — Register  indicating  brethren’s  payments  of  quarter  compts,  1712-1744. 

6.  — Collector’s  Account  Book,  1671-1732. 

7. — Collector’s  Account  Book,  1743-1780. 

8.  — Memorandum  Book,  containing  Acts  of  Trade,  references  to  Petitions,  Lawsuits,  and 

other  craft  and  public  affairs,  1796-1839. 

9. — Act  Book,  1786-1821. 

10. — Enrolment  Book  for  Apprentices  and  Journeymen,  1717-1817. 

II.  — Letter  Book,  1839. 

12.  — Collector’s  Book,  for  noting  papers  put  into  the  box  or  taken  from  it,  1818-1844. 

13.  — Copy  I.etter  of  Guildry  of  9th  February,  1605  (see  p.  42). 

14.  — Seal  of  Cause  by  the  Provost,  Bailies,  and  Community  of  Glasgow  to  the  Weavers,  dated 

16th  February,  1605  (see  p.  2). 

15.  — Charter  by  the  Archbishop  of  Glasgow  in  favour  of  the  Weavers,  dated  19th  July,  1681 

(see  p.  5). 

16.  — Ratification  by  Parliament,  dated  17th  September,  1681  (see  p.  6). 

y 


168 


APPENDIX. 


II.— CONSTITUTION. 

See  Division  I.,  supra. 

Ill— APPRENTICESHIP  AND  FREEMANSHIP. 

Acts  anent  Booking  of  Apprentices  and  Admission  of  Strangers  as  Freemen, 
together  with  Indentures  of  Apprentices. 

1.  — Extract  Act  of  Trades’  House,  dated  11th  December,  1671,  ratifying  a  former  Act 

regulating  the  booking  of  apprentices  (see  pp.  31,  32). 

2.  — Extract  Act  of  Trades’  House  ratifying  an  Act  of  the  Weavers  of  date  2nd  May,  1673, 

fixing  the  freedom  fine  for  strangers  entering  freemen  (see  p.  33). 

3.  — Extract  Act  of  Trades’  House  anent  an  Act  of  Town  Council  as  to  the  placing  of 

boys  on  apprenticeship  under  the  Auldhouse  Mortification,  dated  28th 
February,  1746. 

4.  — .Agreement  between  John  Cochrane  and  Duncan  Lome,  whereby  the  said  John  is  to  be 

taught  "  double  cuveringis,”  dated  16th  July,  1656  (see  p.  28). 

5.  — Indenture  of  David  Muir,  son  of  Abraham  Muir  in  Craigend,  dated  24th  December,  1657. 

6.  — Indenture  of  John  Bryson,  son  of  the  late  John  Bryson,  weaver  burgess  of  Glasgow, 

dated  27th  July,  1658  (see  p.  22). 

7.  — Indenture  of  Andrew  MTndoe,  son  of  James  MTndoe,  indweller  in  Dintraith,  dated 

17th  October,  1694. 

8.  — Indenture  of  John  Bruce,  son  of  Wm.  Bruce,  weaver  in  Airdrie,  dated  17th  November, 

1729,  with  Memorandum  on  back,  dated  7th  February,  1735,  bearing  that  the 
Indenture  is  “  given  up,”  the  apprentice  being  convicted  of  theft. 

9.  — Assignation  of  John  Bruce’s  Indenture  in  favour  of  a  new  master,  dated  26th  April,  1733. 

10.  — Indenture  of  George  Humphrey,  son  of  Robert  Humphrey,  weaver  in  Glasgow,  "  one 

of  the  poor  boys  under  Hutchesons’  Mortification,”  dated  9th  October,  1732. 

11.  — Indenture  of  John  Lang,  son  of  the  late  John  Lang,  maltman  burgess,  "one  of  the 

poor  boys  on  the  Laird  of  Scots  Tarbett’s  Mortification,”  dated  26th  January,  1734. 

12.  — Indenture  of  John  M'Millan,  son  of  the  late  John  M'Millan,  weaver  at  Lochfine,  dated 

10th  December,  1737. 

13.  — Indenture  of  James  Stevenson,  son  of  John  Stevenson,  stabler  in  Glasgow,  dated  1st 

January,  1737. 


APPENDIX. 


169 


14.  — Indenture  of  Duncan  M'Farlane,  son  of  the  late  Patrick  M'Failane,  land  labourer  in 

Buchanan,  dated  2nd  November,  1738. 

15.  — Indenture  of  John  M‘ Arthur,  son  of  the  late  Duncan  M' Arthur,  tailor  in  the  Parish  of 

Kilmore,  dated  16th  May,  1738. 

16.  — Indenture  of  James  Dougall,  son  of  Henry  Dougall,  land  labourer  in  Glasgow,  dated 

8th  November,  1738. 

17.  — Indenture  of  Andrew  Gray,  son  of  the  late  Andrew  Gray,  land  labourer  in  the  Parish 

of  Linlithgow,  dated  2nd  September,  1741. 

18.  — Indenture  of  James  Marshall,  son  of  Alexr.  Marshall,  workman  in  Glasgow,  dated 

17th  March,  1742. 

19.  — Indenture  of  Wm.  Reid,  son  of  the  late  Michael  Reid,  wright  in  Glasgow,  dated  28th 

September,  1743. 

20.  — Indenture  of  John  Sutherland,  son  of  Alexr.  Sutherland,  chairman  in  Glasgow,  dated 

30th  September,  1743. 

21.  — Indenture  of  Robert  Anderson,  natural  son  of  the  late  John  Anderson,  surgeon  in 

Arran,  dated  I7th  November,  1743. 

22  — Indenture  of  James  Gray,  son  of  Archibald  Gray,  workman  in  Glasgow,  dated  13th 
July,  1743. 

23.  — Indenture  of  Daniel  Shaw,  .son  of  John  Shaw,  servant  to  Alexr.  M'Donald  in  the  Isle 

of  Uist,  dated  18th  July,  1743,  with  Memorandum  on  back  that  he  had  "  run 
away  from  his  master  with  the  rebells.” 

24.  — Indenture  of  John  M'Farlan,  son  of  the  late  Wm.  M'Farlan,  gardener  at  Ruchhill, 

dated  27th  January,  1744. 

25.  — Indenture  of  Wm.  Wright,  son  of  Dougal  Wright,  workman  in  Glasgow,  dated  5th 

March,  1744. 

26.  — Indenture  of  James  Aiken,  son  of  Wm  Aiken,  ''  maltcaer  ”  in  Glasgow,  dated  27th 

June,  1744. 

27.  — Indenture  of  James  Marshall,  son  of  John  Marshall,  coalheaver  in  Muir  of  Gorbals, 

dated  23rd  February,  1744. 

28.  — Indenture  of  Robert  Smart,  son  of  John  Smart,  journeyman  weaver  in  Glasgow,  dated 

5th  October,  1744. 

29.  — Indenture  of  Hugh  Wilken,  son  of  James  Wilken,  merchant  in  Glasgow,  dated  15th 

January,  1745. 

30.  — Indenture  of  Charles  Pirrie,  son  of  Charles  Pirrie,  wright  in  Gorbals,  dated  5th  June, 

1745. 


170 


APPENDIX. 


31.  — Indenture  of  James  Thomson,  son  of  the  late  George  Thomson,  workman  in  Glasgow, 

dated  7th  August,  1745. 

32.  — Indenture  of  Robert  Chambers,  .son  of  the  late  James  Chambers,  smith  in  Cumber¬ 

nauld,  dated  9th  April,  1745. 

33.  — Indentirre  of  John  M'Farlane,  son  of  R.  M'Farlane,  land  labourer  in  the  Parish  of 

Lochgoilhead,  dated  6th  March,  1746. 

34. — Indenture  of  John  Brown,  son  of  Hugh  Brown,  farmer  in  the  Parish  of  Kilbrinnan, 

.dated  26th  May,  1747. 

35. — Indenture  of  John  M  Kenzie,  son  of  the  late  John  M'Kenzie,  coalheaver  in  Gorbals, 

dated  21st  October,  1775. 

36.  — Indenture  of  Andrew  Liddel,  son  of  Andrew  Liddel,  labourer  in  Gorbals,  dated  17th 

January,  1788. 

37.  — Assignation  of  the  Indenture  of  date  14th  March,  1732,  between  Wm.  Young  and  James 

Moy,  weaver,  in  favour  of  a  new  master,  dated  27th  April,  1733. 


IV.— TRADE  PRIVILEGES. 

Burgess  Tickets,  Records  of  Privileges  of  Freemen  Craftsmen,  and  of 
Penalties  incurred  by  Strangers  infringing  the  liberties  of  the  Craft. 

1.  — Burgess  Ticket  of  John  Boyd,  tailor,  dated  8th  August,  1678  (see  p.  36). 

2.  — Burgess  Ticket  of  John  Murray,  merchant,  dated  16th  June,  1692. 

3.  — Burgess  Ticket  of  James  Stark,  weaver,  dated  18th  September,  1734. 

4.  — Burgess  Ticket  (not  legible),  dated  1643. 

5.  — Extract  Act  of  Town  Council  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  as  to  the  working  of  webs  in  a 

Manufactory,  dated  5th  May,  1638  (see  p.  35). 

6.  — Bond  by  Patrick  Aikenhead,  weaver  at  Provane-mylne,  to  pay  58  shillings  Scots  yearly 

for  liberty  to  take  weaver  work  in  Glasgow  to  work  at  his  home,  dated  29th 
July,  1657. 

7.  — Extract  Act  of  Trades’  House  anent  a  Petition  by  the  Coopers  against  the  partners  of 

the  East  Suggary  for  employing  an  unfreeman  cooper,  dated  1st  June,  1687. 

8.  — Act  of  the  Lords  of  the  Exchequer  as  to  privileges  given  to  the  masters  of  the  East 

Suggary,  dated  5th  July,  1687  (see  p.  37). 


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9. _ Extract  Act  of  the  Weavers  refusing  the  prayer  of  a  Petition  by  certain  freemen  weavers 

anent  the  booking  of  stranger  journeymen,  dated  14th  November,  1746. 

10.  — Representation  to  the  Trades’  House  on  behalf  of  the  Petitioners  anent  the  booking  of 

stranger  journeymen,  dated  2nd  December,  1746,  having  endorsed  thereon  Minute 
of  the  Weavers’  consideration  of  the  representation  which  had  been  transmitted 
to  them  by  the  Trades’  House  for  answers,  dated  13th  February,  1747. 

11.  — Complaint  and  Representation  to  the  Weaver  craft  by  their  collector  against  two 

freemen  weavers  contravening  the  Acts  of  the  Trade  by  giving  work  to  unfreemen, 
dated  21st  January,  1747  (see  p.  40). 

12.  — Copy  Petition  to  the  Lord  Provost  and  Council  by  Wm.  Gemmill  and  James  Sym, 

freemen  weavers,  to  have  an  Act  of  the  Weavers  of  date  23rd  May,  1735,  referring 
to  the  employment  of  unfreemen,  rescinded,  dated  26th  January,  1747. 

13.  —Obligations  by  certain  persons  found  guilty  of  acting  contrary  to  the  Acts  of  the  Weaver 

craft  by  taking  freemen's  work  outwith  the  town  to  work,  binding  themselves 
never  again  to  infringe  upon  the  liberties  and  privileges  of  the  craft  under  specified 
penalties ; 

John  Pettigrew,  weaver  in  Dykehead,  dated  8th  March,  1675. 

John  Ker,  weaver  in  Titwood,  dated  9th  November,  1681. 

James  Barton,  weaver  in  Meikie  Govan,  dated  16th  November,  1682. 

James  Duncan,  weaver  in  Gourock,  dated  20th  December,  1682. 

John  Stewart,  weaver  in  Partick,  dated  9th  August,  1683. 

Wm.  Wilson,  weaver  in  Easter  Cunchlie,  dated  9th  August,  1683. 

David  Shanks,  weaver  in  Auchiniron,  dated  14th  March,  1683. 

John  Wark,  weaver  in  Kinmuir,  dated  31st  Januaiy,  1683. 

Wm.  Morton,  in  Middle  Quarter  of  Shettleston,  dated  24th  January,  1683. 
Wm.  Gilmour,  younger,  weaver  in  Meikie  Govan,  dated  27th  September,  1687. 
Thomas  Spreull,  weaver  in  Netherpollock,  dated  22nd  August,  1688. 

Wm.  Stark,  in  Gartsherrj'^,  dated  30th  July,  1697. 

John  Gardner,  weaver  in  Keppoch,  dated  26th  June,  1724. 

Aicxr.  Jamieson,  weaver  in  Boghall,  dated  28th  September,  1726. 

Jame.s  Steven,  weaver  in  Craigends,  dated  1st  October,  1731. 

14. — Petition  to  the  Magistrates  to  concur  in  the  prosecution  of  Wm.  Robertson,  journeyman 

weaver  to  John  Biggar,  in  Glasgow,  for  taking  freemen’s  stuff  out  of  the  town 
contrary  to  an  article  in  the  Weavers’  Charter  ;  dated  4th  January,  1711. 

15.  — Petition  to  the  Magistrates  to  grant  warrant  to  summon  John  Anderson  and  Matthew 

Barr  to  answer  to  the  charge  of  doing  craft  work  within  the  city,  they  not  being 
freemen  ;  warrant  granted ;  dated  1st  March,  1780,  having  endorsed  thereon 
Decreet  of  Magistrate  fining  each  in  5s.  stg.,  and  ordering  them  to  give  bond  to 
cease  working  until  they  enter  as  freemen  ;  dated  9th  March,  1780. 


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V.— RECORDS  OF  THE  INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS 
IN  RELATION  TO  THE  TRADES’  HOUSE 
OF  GLASGOW. 

1.  — Receipt  for,  40  pounds  Scots  paid  by  the  Craft  as  part  of  the  expenses  incurred  in 

obtaining  the  “  Ratification  of  the  Guildry,”  dated  11th  November,  1672  (see  p.  42, 
and  Craufurd’s  Sketch  of  the  Trades’  House,  p.  84). 

2.  — Receipt  for  £6  stg.  paid  by  the  Craft  towards  defraying  the  expenses  of  the  “  plea 

between  the  fonr  and  the  ten  trades,”  dated  18th  September,  1776  (see  p.  84,  and 
Sketch  of  the  Trades’  House,  pp.  109,  110). 

3.  — Receipt  for  £9  10s.  paid  by  the  Craft  "  as  their  proportion  of  extracting  the  Decreet 

that  the  four  got  against  the  ten,”  dated  14th  Jnly,  1777  (see  Sketch  of  the  Trades’ 
House,  p.  110). 

4.  — Extract  Act  of  the  Trades’  House,  in  answer  to  a  Petition  from  the  Maltmen  anent 

qnarter  compts,  dated  5th  June,  1744. 

5.  — Extract  Acts  of  the  Trades’  House  : 

Confirming  Acts  of  the  Cordiners,  dated  6th  March,  1781. 

Anent  Reform  of  Burgh  Set,  dated  10th  January,  1788. 

Anent  the  Gorbal  Lands,  dated  12th  August,  1788. 

Anent  Fnnds  to  oppose  Police  Bill,  dated  2nd  March  and  3rd  June,  1790. 

Anent  Appropriation  of  Fnnds,  dated  11th  June,  1790,  and  25th  January,  1793. 
Anent  protest  against  proceedings  of  25th  January,  1793. 

Anent  the  Bill  for  Regulating  the  Importation  of  Corn,  etc.,  dated  26th  Jar.uarj'^,  1791. 
Anent  Augmentation  of  Pensions,  dated  7th  March,  1791. 

Anent  the  Building  of  a  Hall,  dated  11th  June,  1791  ;  26th  January,  1792. 

q. _ Minute  of  the  Weavers  anent  the  proposal  to  build  a  Hall,  dated  17th  March,  1792, 

following  upon  an  Extract  Act  of  the  Trades’  House,  dated  10th  March,  1792. 

7, _ Extract  Act  of  Trades’  House  anent  a  Petition  from  the  Dyers  and  Bonnetmakers  ”  for 

restoration  to  their  dormant  privileges,”  dated  18th  August,  1791,  having  endorsed 
thereon  Minute  of  the  Weavers,  dated  26th  August,  1791. 

3. _ Pixtract  Act  of  the  Trades’  House  anent  the  state  of  the  Funds,  dated  3rd  April,  1795, 

having  endorsed  thereon  Minute  of  the  Weavers,  dated  15th  May,  1795. 

9_ _ Extract  Acts  of  the  General  Committee  on  the  Lands  of  Gorbals,  dated  1st  November, 

21st  December,  1790  ;  7th  March,  1791  ;  16th  February,  27th  February,  2nd  March, 
1792;  11th  September,  1794. 

10. _ Receipt  for  payment  to  the  Trades’  House  of  the  Weaver  Craft’s  share  of  loss  sustained 

on  Grain  brought  in  for  the  years  1766  and  1767,  dated  5th  September,  1772. 

11_ _ Receipt  for  payment  by  the  Weavers  of  £10  stg.  as  their  first  share  of  advance  for 

following  out  the  question  whether  the  Trades’  House  have  management  of  their 
own  Funds,  dated  18th  August,  1791. 


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VL— SUPERVISION  OF  TRADESMANSHIP. 

See  Divisions  III.  and  IV. 


VII. —MEETINGS  AND  PLACES  OF  MEETING. 

See  Minute  Books,  Division  I. 


VIII.— DISCIPLINE. 

Records  of  cases  of  Defaulters  granting  obligations  not  to 
repeat  the  offence. 

1.  — Obligation  by  Wm.  Turner,  merchant  in  Glasgow,  convicted  before  a  magistrate  "  for 

misdemeanour  and  scandalous  expressions  ”  against  the  Weavers,  dated  11th 
October,  1703. 

2.  — Obligation  by  Archibald  Menzies,  horse-hirer  in  Glasgow,  found  guilty  of  scandalising 

the  Weavers,  dated  6th  March,  1706. 

3.  — Obligation  by  Wm.  Crawfurd,  weaver,  convicted  by  the  Deacon  of  slandering  James 

Wright,  weaver,  dated  6th  June,  1712. 

4.  — Obligation  b}?^  Thomas  Barr,  journeyman  weaver  to  Wm.  Fleckfield,  to  pay,  when 

required,  12  pounds  Scots,  in  which  he  was  fined  by  the  Deacon  and  masters  for 
deserting  his  master. 


IX.— MONEY  MATTERS. 

1.  — A  bundle  of  Bills  granted  to  the  Weavers  in  payment  of  reeds,  freedom  fines,  house 

rents,  quarter  compts,  etc.,  between  the  years  1721  and  1788. 

2.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  Robert  Steven,  reedmaker  in  Kirkintilloch,  for 

non-payment  of  bill,  dated  20th  August,  1724. 

3.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  Wm.  Reid,  weaver  in  Glasgow,  for  non-payment 

of  bill,  dated  12th  September,  1728. 

4.  — Protest  against  John  Miller,  weaver  in  Glasgow,  for  non-payment  of  bill,  dated  1st 

October,  1731. 


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5.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  James  King,  reedmaker  in  Paisley,  for  non-payment 

of  bill,  dated  1st  May,  1731,  and  Execution  of  charge  for  payment,  dated  22nd 
May,  1731. 

6.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  Wm.  Alexander,  weaver  in  Glasgow,  for  non-payment 

of  bill,  dated  5th  March,  1733  ;  and  Execution  of  charge,  dated  14th  March,  1733. 

7.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  Patrick  Lang,  reedmaker  in  Glasgow,  for  non¬ 

payment  of  bill,  dated  12th  August,  1736  ;  and  Execution  of  charge,  dated  10th 
August,  1741. 

8.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  James  Eglinton,  reedmaker  in  Paisley,  for  non¬ 

payment  of  bill,  dated  20th  September,  1737  ;  and  Execution  of  charge,  dated 
12th  April,  1740. 

9.  — Extract  Registered  Protest  against  James  Aird,  weaver  in  Gorbals,  for  non-payment 

of  bill,  dated  13th  June,  1746. 

10.  — Extract  Decreet  before  a  magistrate  of  the  Burgh,  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers 

against  certain  weavers  for  payment  of  certain  sums  due  by  bill,  dated  2nd  Match, 
1761  ;  and  Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  Decreet,  dated  25th  March,  1761. 

11.  — Testament  Dative  and  Inventory  of  umquhill  Andrew  Graham,  manufacturer, 

Glasgow,  dated  8th  June,  1774. 

12.  — A  small  bundle  of  Bills  granted  by  the  Weavers  for  money  received  on  loan  ”  for 

behove  of  the  Incorporation,”  1742-1798. 

13.  — Receipt  by  Margaret  Houston,  relict  of  Michael  Watson,  weaver  burgess,  in  favour  of 

the  Weavers,  for  their  paj'ment  of  one  year’s  interest  on  a  400  merks  bond,  dated 
5th  August,  1668. 

14.  — Receipt  tor  payment  by  Weaver  Craft  of  100  merks,  being  one  half  of  a  200  merks 

bond,  dated  11th  November,  1693. 

15.  — Receipt  for  payment  by  Weaver  Craft  of  interest  on  a  hundred  pounds  Scots  bond, 

dated  31st  August,  1742. 

16.  — Receipt  for  payment  by  Weaver  Craft  of  one  year’s  interest  on  a  200  merks  bond,  dated 

24th  June,  1746. 

17.  — Receipt  for  payment  by  Weaver  Craft  of  one  year’s  interest  on  £80  stg.  bond,  dated  8th 

June,  1767. 

18.  — A  bundle  of  Receipts  acknowledging  payments  made  by  Weaver  Craft  of  tradesmen’s 

and  other  accounts,  1746-1750. 

19.  — Receipt  for  15  pounds  Scots  paid  to  the  Trades’  House  for  4  quarter  compts,  dated 

25th  August,  1660. 


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20.  — Receipts  for  payment  of  a  half-year’s  and  a  quarter-year’s  rent  due  by  the  Weavers  for 

the  Chapel  in  the  Castle  of  Glasgow,  dated  2nd  November,  1731,  and  2nd  May,  1732. 

21.  — Receipt  for  payment  made  to  the  College  of  ground  annuals  due  from  the  Weavers’ 

lands  of  Bowastie,  dated  20th  February,  1661. 

22.  — A  bundle  of  Receipts  for  payments  of  ground  annuals  to  the  College,  1774-1812. 

23.  — A  bundle  of  Receipts  for  payments  made  by  Weavers,  of  Land  Stent  and  Trade  Stent, 

for  years  1749-1814. 

24.  — Receipt  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  and  Andrew  Galloway  and  John  Stirling,  portioners 

in  Auchinairn,  for  part  payment  of  tradesmen’s  account  for  casting  a  ditch  between 
their  lands  and  the  lands  of  George  Scot  of  Wester  Limloch,  dated  6th  June,  1720. 

25.  — Execution  of  Arrestment  in  the  hands  of  James  Stevenson,  portionor  in  Auchinairn,  at 

the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  John  Stirling,  portioner  of  Auchinairn,  for 
20  pounds  Scots  :  dated  9th  November,  1721. 

26.  — Memorandum  of  Expenses  in  connection  with  certain  Letters  of  Horning. 

27.  — Fragment  of  an  Account  in  connection  with  “  spinnells.” 

28.  — Invoice  from  Archibald  Boyd,  Hamilton,  for  yarn  and  worsted,  sent  per  carrier,  dated 

8th  December,  1701. 

29.  — Invoices  from  Richard  Meikle,  Strathaven,  for  worsted,  etc.,  sent  per  carrier,  dated 

November  and  December,  1701,  and  February,  1702. 

30.  — Account  of  sum  due  to  John  Knox  for  yarn,  dated  10th  December,  1701. 

31.  — Receipt  for  £2  paid  by  the  Craft  to  the  widow  of  Daniel  Morrison,  officer  to  the  Weavers, 

dated  10th  April,  1792. 

32.  — Warrant  to  the  collector  to  pay  the  officer  4s.  stg.  for  “  overplus  ”  services,  dated  19th 

February,  1779. 

33.  — Receipt  for  £10  10s.  paid  to  the  clerk  as  his  year’s  salary,  dated  31st  .\ugust,  1810. 

34.  — A  few  Accounts  for  legal  expenses,  1762-1810. 

35.  — Warrant  of  the  Magistrates  to  summon  James  Wilson,  late  collector  of  Weavers,  to 

answer  the  complaint  by  the  deacon  and  masters  that  he  refuses  to  make  compt  of 
his  intromissions  with  the  Craft  funds,  dated  9th  November,  1719. 

36. — Letters  of  Horning  passed  at  the  instance  of  David  Robb,  elder,  maltman,  against  James 

Wilson,  principal  in  a  bond  for  100  merks  Scots,  dated  10th  November.  1719  ;  and 
Execution  of  charge,  dated  11th  November,  1719. 


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37. — Letters  of  Inhibition  passed  as  in  foregoing,  dated  10th  November,  1719  ;  and  Execution 
of  charge,  dated  11th  November,  1719. 

3S. — Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Inhibition  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers 
against  James  Wilson,  late  collector,  dated  13th  November,  1719. 

39. — Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Inhibition  containing  arrestment  at  the 

instance  of  the  Weavers  against  Jame.s  Wilson,  arresting  in  the  hands  of  Robert 
Dobie  and  others,  weavers,  3000  merks  and  all  goods,  etc.,  belonging  to  James 
Wilson,  dated  14th  November,  1719. 

40.  — Extract  Decreet  before  the  Magistrate  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  ordaining  Robert 

Dobie  and  others  to  pay  to  the  Weaver  Craft  certain  .sums  borrowed  from  James 
Wilson,  to  which  the  Weaver  Craft  has  right  by  assignation  from  the  said  James, 
dated  30th  Novemb'^r,  1719  ;  and  Execution  of  charge,  dated  9th  December,  1719. 

41.  — Charge  and  Letters  of  Horning  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  James  Wilson 

on  a  heritable  bond  to  the  Incorporation  for  1100  merks  Scots,  with  300  merks  of 
penalty,  dated  31st  May,  1720. 

42.  — Warrant  of  Caption  by  the  Lords  of  Council  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against 

James  Wilson,  who  has  been  put  to  the  horn  for  a  debt  of  1100  merks  Scots  under 
a  heritable  bond  with  relative  rents  and  penalty,  dated  9th  August,  1720. 

43.  — -Discharge  by  David  Robb,  maltman,  to  James  Wilson  and  his  cautioners  in  a  100  merks 

bond  for  payment  of  40  pounds  Scots ;  and  Assignation  by  David  Robb  to  the 
Weavers  (in  consideration  of  payment  made)  of  the  sum  of  43  pounds  5s.  4d.  Scots 
and  the  annual  rents  thereon,  with  full  powei  to  them  to  uplift  sum  assigned  ; 
dated  1st  October,  1720. 

44.  — ^Assignation  by  Janet  Robertson,  relict  and  Executrix  Dative,  decerned  and  confiim'^d, 

to  the  decea.-:ed  James  Ferguson,  collector  to  the  Weavers,  of  the  sums  contained 
in  4  bills  payable  to  the  deceased  James,  and  allowed  to  the  Weavers  by  inter¬ 
locutor  pronounced  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  before  the  Magistrates  of 
Glasgow  ;  dated  20th  February,  1724. 

45.  — Bundle  of  42  Bonds  granted  by  the  Weavers  for  sums  of  money  borrowed  on  behalf  of 

the  Cralt,  with  some  discharges  for  annual  rents  and  principal  sums,  1666-1757. 

46.  — Bundle  of  6  Bonds  granted  in  favour  of  the  Weavers,  1631-1778  (see  p.  77). 

47.  — Extract  Registered  Assignation  by  James  Boyle,  weaver,  to  the  Weavers,  in  and  to  the 

whole  annual  rents  of  the  sum  of  money  lent  on  bond  of  8th  January,  1748,  to 
Wm.  Millar  and  Hugh  and  John  Stewart,  merchants;  dated  15th  December,  1760, 


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X.— LEGISLATION  AND  LITIGATION. 

1.  — Copy  Act  of  Privy  Council  discharging  the  exportation  of  linen  yarn,  dated  13th 

January,  1603  (see  p.  86). 

2.  — Letters  by  King  James  VI.  against  the  transportation  of  linen  yarn,  dated  12th  March, 

1612  (see  p.  87). 

3.  — Copy  Supplication  by  the  Weavers  of  Scotland  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council, 

praying  for  the  Suspension  of  the  Act  of  Parliament  passed  in  1661  regulating  the 
breadth  of  linen  cloth  ;  dated  21st  November,  1666  (see  p.  88). 

4.  — “  xliii  Act  discharging  the  exportation  of  linen  yarn  and  regulating  the  breadth  of 

linen  cloth,  etc.,”  1641  (see  p.  90). 

5.  — Information  for  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow,  Gorbals,  and  Rutherglen  against  David 

Weymes  (see  p.  91). 

6.  — Instrument  of  Protest  by  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  of  Gorbals  against  James  Bryce, 

messenger,  dated  8th  October,  1667  (see  p.  93). 

7.  — Instrument  of  Protest  by  the  Weavers  of  Rutherglen  against  James  Bryce,  messenger, 

dated  9th  October,  1667. 

8.  — Copy  of  Letters  from  Win.  Brown,  agent  to  the  Burghs,  to  Wm.  Anderson,  late  Provost 

of  Glasgow,  concerning  the  Weavers’  cause  against  David  Weymes,  dated  at  Edin¬ 
burgh,  7th,  9th,  and  14th  May,  1668. 

9.  — Extract  Act  of  the  Lords  of  Exchequer  in  answer  to  a  Petition  given  in  by  the 

Royal  Burghs  anent  the  xliii  Act  of  1641,  discharging,  until  further  order,  David 
Weymes  from  ‘‘  further  prosecuting  of  his  Gift  ”  against  contraveners,  dated 
9th  May,  1668. 

10.  — Contract  and  Agreement  by  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  of  Bridgend  in  favour  of  the 

Weavers  in  Kirkintilloch  and  the  parts  within  the  Parish  of  Lenzie,  with  regard  to 
privileges  under  the  foregoing  Act ;  dated  29th  May,  1668. 

11.  — Discharge  by  Wm,  Paisley  and  Thomas  Davidson,  weaver  burgesses  of  Paisley,  to  the 

Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  Gorbals,  discharging  them  (without  payment)  of  a  bond 
of  40  pounds  Scots  advanced  for  helping  in  the  defence  in  the  action  intended 
against  them  at  the  instance  of  David  Weymes,  ”  in  regard  that  through  the  just 
and  diligent  defence  the  said  David  was  discouraged  in  the  pursuit  against  us  ”  ; 
dated  at  Paisley,  28th  October,  1670. 

12.  — Letter  from  Wm.  Wilson,  jun.,  acknowledging  receipt  of  £15  stg.  ”  to  account  of  the 

Weavers,”  making  reference  to  an  Interlocutor  of  the  Lords,  and  mentioning  that 
although  the  Decreet  is  not  yet  extracted  application  may  be  made  to  the  magistrate 
”  for  getting  every  silk  weaver  fined  who  has  not  entered  with  the  Incorporation  ”  ; 
dated  at  Edinburgh,  2nd  March,  1778. 


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13.  — Receipt  for  Craft  payment  of  £24  stg.  to  account  of  expense  of  extracting  a  Decreet 

against  the  silk  weavers  in  Glasgow,  dated  13th  November,  1778. 

14.  — Receipt  granted  to  the  Weavers  by  John  Marshall  for  payment  of  £3  3s.  for  his  “  trouble 

in  the  Processes  ”  for  and  against  the  Weavers  before  the  Magistrates  of  Glasgow 
and  the  Lords  of  Session  with  relation  to  the  silk  weavers,  dated  27th  November, 
1778. 

15.  — Receipt  for  £3  10s.  in  payment  of  expenses  decerned  to  be  paid  by  defenders  in  the 

Process  before  the  Magistrates,  at  the  instance  of  Robert  Craig  against  the  Weavers, 
dated  16th  April,  1793. 

16.  — Letter  from  David  Campbell,  Ayr,  desiring  a  copy  of  the  Address  to  Parliament  anent 

the  "  Linnen  Manufactor,”  dated  29th  December,  1719. 

17.  — Account  of  what  was  received  from  the  country  Weavers  “  about  the  calicoes,”  and 

account  of  expenses  in  connection  therewith  (undated). 


XL— RELATIONS  WITH  GORBALS  AND  BRIDGEND 
WEAVERS,’  AND  ALSO  WITH  EDINBURGH 
WEAVERS. 

Gorbals  and  Bridgend  Weavers. 

1.  — Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals,  dated  8th 

May,  1605  (see  p.  95). 

2.  — Contract  and  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals, 

dated  10th  April,  1657  (see  p.  98). 

3.  — Copy  of  foregoing  Contract  and  Agreement,  dated  1710. 

4.  — List  of  the  ‘‘  deficiency  of  the  non-payers’  quarters  for  1688-1694,”  containing  the 

names  of  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals,  the  number  of  looms,  ”  payment  of  quarter 
compts,  deficiencies  and  quota  thereof  in  money.” 

5.  — Extract  Act  of  the  Magistrates  and  Council  of  Glasgow,  dated  3rd  October,  1692,  as  to 

certain  privileges  in  the  Contract  and  Agreement  of  10th  April,  1657  (see  p.  103). 

6.  — Extract  Decreet  ol  Gorbals  Bailie  with  concurrence  of  Magistrates  and  Council  of 

Glasgow,  at  the  instance  of  the  Glasgow  Weavers  against  the  Gorbals  Weavers  for 
contravening  the  1657  Contract  and  Agreement ;  dated  18th  March,  1695. 


APPENDIX. 


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7.  — Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Horning  raised  at  the  instance  of  the  Glasgow 

Weavers  against  Gorbals  Weavers,  dated  4th  April,  1695. 

8. — Bill  of  Suspension  to  the  Lords  of  Session  by  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals  against  the  fore¬ 

going  Decreet ;  Stay  of  Execution  granted  and  answers  called  for  ;  dated  April, 
1695. 

9- — Answers  for  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  to  the  Reasons  of  Snspension  given  in  by  Weavers 
of  Gorbals,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  the  Contract  between  the  Weavers  of 
Edinburgh  and  of  Westport  “  as  the  rule  and  method  ”  upon  which  the  Contract 
between  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  of  Gorbals  follows. 

10.  — Summons  of  Declarator  by  the  Lords  of  Session  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  of 

Glasgow,  dated  22nd  April,  1695. 

11.  — Execution  of  Summons  in  virtue  of  Summons  of  Declarator,  dated  27th  April,  1695. 

12.  — Memorandum  for  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  in  Summons  of  Declarator. 

13 — Letters  of  Arrestment,  pending  caution,  in  the  action  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  of 
Glasgow  against  Weavers  of  Gorbals.  dated  23rd  April,  1695. 

14.  — Execution  of  Arrestment  in  the  hands  of  various  merchants,  weavers,  etc.,  in  Gorbals, 

dated  4th  May,  1695. 

15.  — Minute  for  the  Suspenders,  1695. 

16.  — Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Horning  raised  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers 

of  Glasgow  against  the  Weavers  of  Gorbals,  dated  4th  December,  1719. 

17.  — Extract  Act  of  Weavers,  and  Agreement  between  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  Weavers  of 

Gorbals  for  defending  their  rights  against  out-of-the-town  weavers,  dated  3rd 
February,  1722. 

18.  — Petition  by  Weavers  of  Gorbals  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  for  an  alteration  in  the 

articles  of  their  Agreement  of  1657,  having  reference  to  the  payment  of  quarter 
accounts,  dated  1735,  having  endorsed  thereon  Minute  of  Weavers  appointing  a 
committee  to  consider  the  Petition,  dated  14th  November,  1735. 

19.  — Memorial  for  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  reviewing  their  relations  with  the  Weavers  of 

Gorbals  since  1657,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  the  Decreet  of  the  Gorbals  Bailie 
being  affirmed  by  a  Decreet  of  the  Lords  of  Session  of  7th  Febi'uary,  1696  ;  reference 
also  being  made  to  the  Petition  of  Gorbals  Weavers  of  1735. 

20.  — Memorandum  of  Papers  sent  to  Wm.  Wilson.  W.S.,  in  connection  with  a  Bill  of  Sus¬ 

pension  raised  by  Charles  Wallace,  weaver,  who  set  up  in  Gorbals  as  a  militiaman, 
against  a  Decreet  of  the  Gorbals  Bailie  ;  dated  4th  July,  1750. 


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Edinburgh  Weavers. 

21.  — Copy  of  the  Act  of  the  Magistrates  and  Council  of  Edinburgh  anent  transporting  of  webs 

and  yarn  to  Westport  and  other  suburbs  for  weaving,  of  date  27th  November,  1584  ; 
copied  5th  June,  1694. 

22.  — Copy  Extract  Decreet  granted  by  the  Lords  of  Session  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers 

of  Edinburgh  against  certain  “  wobster  indwellers  in  Cannongate,”  of  date  11th 
February,  1614. 

23.  — Copy  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of  Edinburgh  and  the  Weavers  of  Westport,  of 

date  5th  April,  1650. 

24.  — Copy  of  Articles  agreed  on  conform  to  foregoing  Contract. 

25.  — Discharge  by  the  W'eavers  of  Edinburgh  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  of  all  debts  and 

claims  due  to  the  Weavers  of  Edinburgh  “  for  money  disbursed  by  them,  and 
information  and  instruction  given  concerning  the  enlargement  of  their  liberties 
against  unfreemen  living  in  the  suburbs  of  Glasgow  several  years  ago”;  dated 
18th  April,  1661. 

26.  — Declaration  by  the  Weavers  of  Edinburgh  anent  the  Contract  made  between  them¬ 

selves  and  the  Weavers  of  Westport,  dated  14th  February,  1695. 


XII.— RELATIONS  OF  THE  WEAVERS  OF  GLASGOW 
WITH  THE  WEAVERS  IN  CALTON  AND 
BLACKFAULDS. 

1.  — Agreement  between  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  Wm.  Miller,  weaver  in  Blackfauld,  dated 

19th  October,  1710  (see  p.  107). 

2.  — Contract  and  Agreement  between  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  the  Weavers  in  Calton 

and  Blackfauld,  dated  23rd  February,  1725  (see  p.  108). 

3.  — Extract  Act  of  the  Magistrates  and  Council  of  Glasgow  ratifying  the  foregoing  Contract 

and  Agreement,  dated  29th  April,  1725. 

4.  — Petition  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  by  certain  weavers  residing  in  Calton  for  admission 

to  the  liberties  and  privileges  of  the  Craft,  and  Act  of  Weaver  Craft  granting  same, 
dated  11th  September,  1733  (see  pp.  113,  114). 

5.  — Obligation  by  these  weavers  so  admitted  binding  themselves  to  perform  ”  the  haill 

articles  and  conditions  ”  of  admission,  dated  11th  September,  1733. 

6.  — Copy  of  Acts  of  Trades’  House  of  dates  7th  December,  1723  ;  21st  January,  1724  ;  and 

3rd  August,  1730,  anent  the  purchase  and  sale  of  Borrowfield  and  Blackfauld, 
wherein  is  a  double  of  Mr.  John  Orr’s  proposals. 


APPENDIX. 


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7.  — Copy  Memorial  for  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  in  settlement  of  all  disputes  and  lawsuits 

between  them  and  Mr.  John  Orr  [1732], 

8.  — Execution  of  Summons  in  virtue  of  Summons  of  Reduction,  Declarator  and  Payment 

before  the  Lords  of  Session  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  in  Calton  and  Mr.  John 
Orr  against  the  Weavers  in  Glasgow,  dated  15th  January,  1734. 

9.  — Copy  of  Letters  from  the  Weavers  to  John  Bogle,  W.S.,  instructing  him  as  to  the 

defence  and  employment  of  Counsel  in  foregoing  action,  dated  6th  February,  1734 

10.  — Copy  Minute  in  the  action. 

11.  — Memorial  for  the  Weavers  in  Glasgow. 

12.  — Copy  Petition  to  the  Trades’  House  by  the  Weavers  for  assistance  in  the  action  against 

them  at  the  instance  of  Weavers  of  Calton  and  Mr.  John  Orr. 

13.  — Copy  Petition  of  Weavers,  with  concurrence  of  the  Trades’  House,  to  the  Provost  and 

Council  of  Glasgow  for  assistance  in  their  defence. 

14.  — Copy  Petition  of  Weavers  to  the  Convention  of  Burghs  for  assistance  in  their  defence. 

15.  — Account  of  Expenditure  by  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  "  anent  the  Calton  affair.” 

16.  — Memorandum  anent  the  Weavers  in  Calton  taking  fines  ‘‘  without  owning  the  Weavers 

in  Glasgow  ”  ;  and  anent  Mr.  John  Orr  discharging  an  oversman  chosen  by  the 
deacon  and  masters  according  to  contract. 


XIII.— SOCIAL  MATTERS. 

See  Minute  Books,  Division  I.,  et  passim. 


XIV.— PROPERTIES  HELD  BY  THE  INCORPORATION. 

Rottenrow,  Calton,  Weaver  Street,  Old  Wynd,  Drygate,  Gorbals,  etc. 

Bowastie,  Rottenrow. 

1. — Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  Matthew  Muirhead,  burgess  of  Glasgow,  in  a  waste 
tenement  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  bounded  by  the  Manse  of  Eddleston  on 
the  west,  dated  14th  March,  1537  (see  p.  118). 

2  — Instrument  of  Sasine  (under  Contract  of  Marriage)  on  the  resignation  of  Matthew 
Muirhead  in  favour  of  Catherine  Fleming,  daughter  of  the  Laird  of  Boghall,  in  the 
tenement  above  described  ;  dated  30th  May,  1539. 


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3.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  John  Muirhead,  son  of  Matthew  Muirhead,  in  the 

tenement  above  described,  dated  3rd  March,  1544. 

4.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Thomas  Muirhead,  piocurator,  in  name  of 

John  Muirhead,  in  favour  of  John  Nichol  and  Mariota  Muirhead,  his  spouse,  in  the 
property  above,  described,  dated  20th  April,  1563  {Glasgow  Protocols,  No.  742). 

5.  — Disposition  (under  Contract  of  Marriage)  by  Jean  Nichol  to  Wm.  Fergus,  of  the  assigna¬ 

tion  made  to  her  by  her  father,  with  a  view  to  the  redemption  of  that  waste 
tenement  with  yard  in  Rottenrow,  wadset  by  her  father  to  Jean  Boyd,  dated  28th 
November,  1589. 

6.  — Contract  between  Wm.  Nichol,  tailor  burgess,  and  Nicholas  Watson,  his  wife,  on  the 

one  part,  and  Robert  Lang,  weaver  burgess,  on  the  other,  relative  to  that  yard,  etc,, 
called  Bowastie,  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow  ;  dated  30th  January,  1612. 

7. — Instrument  of  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Wm.  Nichol  and  his  spouse  in  favour  of 

Robert  I.ang  and  his  wife,  in  Bowastie  ;  dated  15th  April,  1613. 

8.  — Disposition  by  George  Lang,  son  of  deceased  Robert  Lang,  in  favour  of  Patrick  Lang, 

his  brother,  of  that  yard,  etc.,  called  Bowastie  ;  dated  23rd  August,  1625. 

9.  — Discharge  by  Patrick  Lang  to  Elizabeth  Nichol,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Watson  and 

Wm.  Nichol,  for  200  merks  Scots  due  under  contract  of  30th  January,  1612  ; 
dated  4th  November,  1625. 

10. — Minute  of  Appointment  of  Judges  and  Arbiters  in  the  division  of  lands  (including 

Bowastie)  belonging  to  the  late  David  Warden,  maltman  burgess,  amongst  his 
three  daughters  ;  dated  3rd  June,  1657. 

11.  — Decreet  Arbitral  of  Judges  in  foregoing  reference,  dated  2nd  July,  1657. 

12.  — Disposition  by  Elspeth  Warden  and  Christian  Warden  in  favour  of  Walter  Neilson, 

present  deacon- convener  of  the  Trades’  House  of  Glasgow,  in  the  orchard,  etc., 
called  Bowastie ;  dated  6th  August,  1657. 

13 — Disposition  by  Walter  Neilson  to  Janet  Warden,  of  the  orchard,  etc.,  called  Bowastie, 
dated  14th  August,  1658. 

14.  — Bond  and  Disposition  in  security,  by  Janet  Warden  to  James  Gairner  at  Provanmylne, 

and  Margaret  Williamson  his  wife,  dated  1658  (incomplete). 

15.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Janet  Warden  in  favour  of  James  Gaimer 

and  his  wife,  in  that  yard,  etc.,  called  Bowastie,  dated  14th  August,  1658. 

10. — “Account  of  the  Weavers’  disbursements  ’’  for  the  buying  of  Bowastie,  with  memo¬ 
randum,  dated  5th  September,  1664, 

17.  — Discharge  by  Patrick  Jackson  to  Janet  Warden  for  fulfilment  of  her  bond,  granted 

5th  January,  1633. 

18.  — Receipt  by  the  factor  to  the  College  to  Janet  Warden  for  payment  of  bygone  ground 

annuals  furth  of  her  tenement  in  Rottenrow,  dated  2nd  June,  1664. 


APPENDIX. 


183 


Rottenrow  Tenement. 

19.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  John  Robertoun  and  his  wife  in  favour  of 

John  Robertoun,  their  son,  in  a  tenement,  with  yard  and  pertinents  thereto, 
situated  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  and  bounded  on  the  west  by  the  lands  of 
John  Nichol,  dated  7th  September,  1574  {Glasgow  Protocols,  No.  2082). 

20.  — Retour  of  Service  of  John  Robertoun  as  heir  of  liis  brother  Archibald  (who  died  July, 

1628),  son  of  James  Robertoun  of  Ernok,  in  all  and  whole  a  tenement  of  land  in 
Rottenrow,  bounded  on  the  west  by  the  lands  belonging  to  the  heirs  of  Wm.  Nichol, 
dated  31st  July,  1629. 

21.  — Bond  by  John  Robertoun,  son  of  James  Robertoun  of  Ernok,  for  the  sum  of  500  merks 

money  borrowed  from  his  brother,  Andrew  Robertoun,  dated  at  Leith,  14th 
July,  1630. 

22.  — Assignation  of  foregoing  Bond  (in  consideration  of  payment  now  made)  by  Andrew 

Robertoun  to  his  brother,  Wm.  Robertoun,  dated  2nd  December,  1639. 

23.  — Decree  by  the  Commissioners  for  Administration  of  Justice  in  Scotland  charging  the 

Regent  of  the  College  of  Glasgow  to  inf  eft  Wm.  Robertoun  of  Prestonpans,  in  a  tene¬ 
ment  of  land  in  the  Rottenrow  of  Glasgow,  dated  August,  1655  ;  with  proceedings 
in  the  Court  of  Apprising. 

24.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Wm.  Robertoun  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  of 

Glasgow,  in  that  tenement  of  land  in  the  Rottenrow  of  Glasgow,  bounded  on  the 
west  by  the  lands  of  old  belonging  to  the  deceased  Wm.  Muirhead,  thereafter  to  the 
heirs  of  the  deceased  Wm.  Nichol,  and  now  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  ;  dated 
20th  February,  1665. 

25.  — Memorandum  for  the  Weavers,  being  apparently  an  instruction  as  to  steps  to  be  taken 

to  cause  Wm.  Robertoun  to  procure  the  service  and  retour  of  John  Robertoun  as 
heir  of  his  father,  and  the  said  John’s  (or  his  curator’s)  ratification  of  the  Disposition 
by  the  said  William  [circa,  1666). 

26.  — Extract  Decreet  Wm.  Robertoun  against  John  Robertoun  declaratory  of  pursuer’s 

heritable  and  irredeemable  right  to  the  tenement  in  Rottenrow,  dated  7th 
February,  1666. 

27.  — Extract  Registered  Disposition  by  Wm.  Robertoun  to  the  Weavers,  of  a  tenement  of 

land  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  dated  17th  November,  1666. 

28.  — Letters  of  Inhibition  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  Wm.  Robertoun,  dated 

1st  January,  1667. 

29.  — Execution  of  charge,  at  the  Mercat  Cross  of  Edinburgh,  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Inhibition 

against  Wm.  Robertoun,  dated  21st  January,  1667. 

30.  — Execution  of  charge  at  the  Mercat  Cross  of  Haddington,  in  virtue  of  Letters  of  Inhibi¬ 

tion  against  Wm.  Robertoun,  dated  31st  January,  1667. 


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APPENDIX. 


31.  — Receipt  by  Andrew  Ralston,  gardener  burgess  of  Glasgow,  to  the  Weavers,  for  payment 

of  34  pounds  16  shillings  Scots  “  for  his  pains  in  going  to  Prestonpans  ”  with  the 
deacon,  to  buy  the  tenement  of  land  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  from  Wm. 
Robertoim,  dated  13th  March,  1667, 

32.  — Extract  Decreet  before  the  Dean  of  Guild  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against 

Margaret  Anderson  and  others  to  cause  them  to  repair  their  hedges  and  dykes 
neighbouring  complainers’  lands,  dated  25th  February,  1669. 

33.  — Execution  of  charge  “  to  fulfil  and  obey  ”  foregoing  Decreet,  dated  26th  February,  1669. 


Calton. 

34.  — Bond  by  Alex.  Muirhead,  maltman  in  Calton,  in  favour  of  John  Purdon,  portioner  in 

Partick,  for  the  sum  of  200  merks  Scots  borrowed  money,  dated  17th  May,  1738. 

35.  — -Assignation  by  John  Purdon  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  of  foregoing  Bond  granted  in 

his  favour  by  Alex.  Muirhead,  maltman  in  Calton,  dated  25th  November,  1747. 

36.  — Decreet  before  the  Justices  for  Lanark  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  Colin 

Keith  for  payment  of  his  rent  of  the  house  in  Calton  lately  belonging  to  Alex. 
Muirhead,  dated  27th  February,  1745. 

37. — Decreet  before  the  Magistrates  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  Colin  Keith, 

giving  warrant  for  arrest  of  the  said  Colin’s  effects  ;  and  Execution  of  warrant; 
dated  1st  March,  1745. 

38.  — Declaration  by  Colin  Keith  "  in  corroboration  of  a  Decreet  ”  obtained  against  him, 

empowering  the  Weavers  to  uplift  effects  belonging  to  him  in  the  hands  of  Daniel 
Clark,  dated  24th  April,  1745. 

39.  — Warrant  by  Agnes  Hill  for  payment  to  the  Weavers  of  a  bill  due  by  Colin  Keith,  dated 

24th  May,  1745. 

40.  — Inventory  of  Effects  found  in  the  house  of  Agnes  Stewart,  in  Calton,  sequestrated  by 

warrant  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  for  security  of  a  year’s  rent,  dated  22nd 
August,  1751. 

41.  — Precept  by  the  Weavers  for  the  warning  of  Peter  Baird  and  his  wife  from  the  house  in 

Calton,  heritably  possessed  by  the  Weavers  from  the  late  Alex.  Muirhead,  maltman, 
dated  20th  March,  1752. 

42.  — Articles  and  Conditions  of  Sale  of  tenement  of  land,  houses,  etc.,  on  the  west  side  of  the 

High  Street  of  Calton,  belonging  to  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow,  dated  1st  May,  1759 
(sold  to  James  Freebairn,  Calton). 

43.  — Double  of  Accounts  concerning  the  debts  due  to  the  Weavers  by  the  estate  of  the  late 

Alex.  Muirhead,  1759  and  1762, 


APPENDIX.  185 

Eddleston  Manse. 

44.  — Titles  of  Eddleston  Manse,  dated  10th  April,  1568  (see  p.  119). 

45.  — Disposition  by  Mr.  John  Hay,  late  parson  of  Renfrew,  to  Thomas  Crawford,  younger, 

merchant  burgess,  of  that  tenement  of  land  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  belonging 
of  old  to  the  Prebendar  of  the  Prebendary  of  Eddleston,  dated  21st  August,  1660. 

46.  — Precept  of  Clare  Constat  granted  by  the  College  of  Glasgow  to  Mr.  John  Hay,  in  fore¬ 

going  tenement,  dated  28th  August,  1660  ;  with  Memorandum,  endorsed,  bearing 
that  Mr.  John  Hay  was  infeft  by  Ninian  Hill,  bailie. 

47.  — Discharge  by  Mr.  James  Findlay,  parson  of  Eddleston,  to  Thomas  Crawfurd  of  Craw- 

furdsburne,  for  complete  payment  of  feu-duties  payable  to  the  parson  of  Eddleston, 
dated  6th  June,  1678. 

48.  — Disposition  by  Thomas  Crawfurd  in  favour  of  Robert  Brock,  goldsmith  in  Glasgow, 

of  that  tenement  of  land  belonging  of  old  to  the  Prebendar  of  the  Prebendary  of 
Eddleston,  dated  28th  September,  1692. 

49.  — Declaration  by  George  Ross,  of  Galston,  of  delivery  of  Disposition  to  the  Weavers,  of 

foregoing  tenement,  dated  17th  June,  1706. 

50.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  in  that  tenement  on  the  north  side  of 

Rottenrow,  formerly  called  the  Prebendal  Manse  of  Eddleston,  dated  20th  June, 
1706. 

51.  — Discharge  by  Wm.  M'Rae,  baxter  in  Glasgow,  to  George  Ross,  of  Galston,  in  full  satis¬ 

faction  of  the  Bond  granted  by  the  said  George  on  9th  May,  1700  ;  dated  12th 
June,  1706. 

52.  — Articles  and  Conditions  of  Sale  of  tenement  of  old  belonging  to  the  Prebendar  of  the 

Prebendary  of  Eddleston,  and  now  to  the  Weavers,  dated  27th  March,  1766, 


Weaver  Street. 

53.  — Tradesmen’s  Estimates  for  workmanship  in  connection  with  the  buildings  to  be  erected 

for  the  Craft  in  Weaver  Street,  April,  1795. 

54.  — Extract  Decreet  of  Lining  granted  to  the  Weavers  for  a  new  tenement  of  land  to  be 

built  at  the  corner  of  Weaver  Street  and  Rottenrow  Street,  dated  2nd  July,  1795. 


Old  Wynd. 

55.  — Articles  and  Conditions  of  the  Roup  of  that  barn  and  yard,  and  tenement  on  the  south 

side  of  it,  all  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the  Old  Wynd,  and  belonging  heritably  to 
the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  ;  with  Minute  of  Sale  of  same  at  1190  merks  Scots  ;  dated 
20th  September,  1720. 

56.  — Receipt  by  Robert  Rankin,  carter  in  Glasgow,  to  the  Weavers,  for  the  writs  of  the 

tenement  in  Old  Wynd. 


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Drygate. 

57.  — Testament  of  Barbara  Lennox,  wife  of  David  Fleming,  constituting  the  said  David 

sole  executor,  dated  4tli  September,  1596. 

58.  — Discharge  by  John  Fleming,  on  behalf  of  his  brothers  Patrick  and  Thomas,  to  Malcolm 

Fleming,  of  Woodilee  for  500  merks  Scots  in  satisfaction  of  their  heritable  right 
in  the  lands  of  Robrestoun,  dated  22nd  December,  1607. 

59.  — Extract  Registered  Obligation  by  John  Drew  in  favour  of  John  Fleming  for  100  merks 

Scots,  dated  8th  June,  1612. 

60.  — Disposition  by  John  Drew,  maltman  burgess  of  Glasgow,  to  Thomas  Pettigrew  and 

James  Lightbody,  of  a  tenement  of  land,  etc.,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Drygate  of 
Glasgow,  dated  21st  January,  1614. 

61.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  John  Fleming  and  his  wife  in  a  tenement  on  the 

north  side  of  Drygate,  dated  19th  July,  1616. 

62.  — Letters  of  Inhibition  at  the  instance  of  Malcolm  Fleming,  of  Woodilee,  and  Lilias 

Fleming,  his  daughter,  against  John  Fleming,  dated  23rd  June,  1620. 

63.  — Execution  of  charge  in  virtue  of  foregoing  Letters  of  Inhibition,  dated  17th  January, 

1621. 

64.  — Disposition  by  John  Fleming  and  Elizabeth  Shaw,  his  wife,  to  John  Shaw,  of  Bargarran, 

of  that  tenement  of  land,  etc.,  situated  in  the  Drygate  on  the  north  side  of  the  High 
Street,  dated  5th  March,  1622. 


Gorbals. 

65.  — Charter  by  the  Magistrates  and  Town  Council  of  Glasgow  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  for 

their  .,y  part  of  the  lands  of  Gorbals,  dated  15th  July,  1650. 

66.  — Instrument  of  Sasine  in  favour  of  the  Weavers  in  their  share  of  the  lands  of  Gorbals, 

dated  17th  July,  1650. 

67.  — Letter  from  James  Hill,  acting  for  Hutchesons’  Hospital,  requesting  the  loan  of  "  the 

Writings  of  the  Weavers  to  their  parts  of  the  Lands  of  Gorbals,”  he  being 
engaged  in  preparing  ‘‘  a  State  of  the  Method  ”  ;  dated  8th  February,  1790. 

General. 

68.  — Extract  Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  the  Weavers  in  favour  of  Andrew  Young,  weaver 

in  Glasgow,  in  a  piece  of  ground  in  Rottenrow,  dated  13th  February,  1752  ;  and 
extracted  21st  August,  1771. 

69.  — Disposition  by  Andrew  Young  to  Robert  Craig,  farmer.  High  Fossil,  of  a  piece  of  ground 

in  Rottenrow,  dated  11th  May,  1774. 


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70.  — Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Andrew  Young  in  favour  of  Robert  Craig,  dated  6th 

March,  1786. 

71.  — Sasine  on  the  resignation  of  Robert  Craig  in  favour  of  the  Weavers,  in  a  piece  of  ground 

in  Rottenrow,  with  houses  thereon,  bounded  on  the  west  by  the  tenement  belonging 
to  the  Weavers,  and  on  the  north  by  the  ground  now  converted  into  Weaver  Street, 
dated  8th  March,  1793. 

72.  — Agreement  and  Contribution  by  the  proprietors  in  Weaver  Street  for  taking  in  Robert 

Craig’s  property,  "  in  order  that  the  street  shall  be  straightened,”  dated  3rd 
September,  1792. 

73.  — Letter  from  Mr.  John  Herbertson  giving  a  guinea  towards  the  contribution,  dated  at 

Grangemouth,  5th  September,  1792. 

74.  — Measurements  of  the  Weavers’  lands  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow,  dated  27th 

January,  1792 — 29  steadings  in  all. 

75.  — Contracts  (‘‘  in  implement  of  the  Articles  of  Roup  of  the  steadings  ”)  of  Ground  Annual 

between  the  Weavers  of  Glasgow  and  the  purchasers  of  the  steadings,  dated 
1792-1800. 

76.  — Feu  Contracts  between  the  Weavers  and  the  purchasers  of  certain  steadings, 

dated  1792. 

77.  — Minute  of  Weavers  anent  a  road  to  be  made  through  two  of  the  steadings,  dated  1st 

March,  1793. 

78.  — Measurement  of  ground,  dated  29th  November,  1793. 

79.  — Plan  of  part  of  Weaver  Street,  20th  June,  1794. 

80.  — Receipt  for  £5  stg.  in  name  of  damages  due  to  Andrew  Adie,  in  connection  with  the 

alteration  of  Canal  Road,  dated  23rd  April,  1793. 


Tacks  of  Lands,  Dwelling-houses,  etc. 

81.  — Tack  by  John  Gairner,  merchant,  to  John  M’Lom,  gardener,  of  a  large  yard  lying  on 

the  north  side  of  the  Rottenrow,  dated  15th  December,  1706. 

82.  — Tack  by  the  Weavers  to  Janet  Anderson,  relict  of  Patrick  Tennent,  gardener,  of  a  large 

yard,  and  a  ”  little  yard  at  the  head  of  it,”  newly  takerr  in  by  the  Weavers,  dated 
20th  December,  1717. 

83.  — Bundle  of  Tacks  (1731-1792)  by  the  Weavers  of  their  large  yard  and  small  yard  in 

Rottenrow  to  Hugh  Tennent,  late  visitor  of  the  gardeners  ;  James  M'Lom, 
gardener ;  Archibald  M’Cousland,  gardener ;  Thomas  Barton,  gardener ;  John 
Jamieson,  gardener  ;  James  Stewart,  late  deacon  of  the  Weavers  ;  James  Stewart, 
and  Walter,  his  son  ;  and  John  Allan,  gardener. 


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84.  — Discharge  of  Tack  by  the  widow  of  John  Allan,  gardener,  owing  to  the  sale  of  the 

grounds  by  the  Weavers,  a  payment  of  £6  10s.  6d.  being  made  to  her  in  name  of 
damages  for  manure  laid  on  the  ground,  dated  20th  March,  1792. 

85.  — Discharge  by  John  Dougal,  gardener,  to  the  Weavers  for  a  payment  of  £9  12s.,  made  to 

him  in  name  of  damages,  dated  14th  February,  1792. 

86.  — Tack  by  the  Weavers  to  James  MTndoe,  gardener,  of  that  dwelling-house  and  yard  at 

the  back  thereof,  commonly  called  Bowastie,  on  the  north  side  of  Rottenrow, 
dated  29th  November,  1682. 

87.  — Tack  by  the  Weavers  to  Robert  Dougald,  gardener,  of  dwelling-house  and  yard  on  the 

north  side  of  Rottenrow,  dated  19th  October,  1703. 

88.  — Bundle  of  Tacks  by  the  Weavers  of  that  tenement  of  land  and  pertinents  on  the  north 

side  of  Rottenrow,  “  commonly  called  Galston’s  Lodging,”  to  Charles  Dunlop, 
weaver  ;  John  Girvan,  weaver  ;  George  Umphray,  weaver  ;  Charles  Lyle,  weaver  ; 
and  Margaret  Nichol,  relict  of  John  Dougal,  gardener;  and  several  Decreets  against 
tenants  for  payment  of  rent  (1719-1748). 

89.  — Bundle  of  Tacks  (1728-1764)  by  the  Weavers  of  that  tenement  on  the  east  side  of  the 

High  Street  of  Glasgow,  below  the  Wyndhead,  to  Wm.  Taylor,  merchant ;  Thomas 
Stewart,  gardener  ;  and  Wm.  Findlay,  weaver. 

90.  — Bundle  of  Tacks  (1742-1743)  by  the  Weavers  of  that  tenement  on  the  west  side  of  the 

New  Wynd  of  Glasgow,  to  John  Goudie,  late  deacon  of  Weavers  ;  Duncan  M'Farlan, 
weaver;  George  Goudie,  weaver;  Gavin  Marshall,  weaver;  and  James  Watson, 
weaver. 

91.  — Tack  by  the  Weavers  to  Archibald  M'Auley,  gardener,  of  the  housing,  yard  and  perti¬ 

nents,  on  the  south  side  of  the  street  below  the  Wyndhead,  only  to  be  used  as 
garden  grounds,  dated  17th  September,  1754. 

92.  — Precept  on  Decreet  at  the  instance  of  the  Weavers  against  John  Baird,  weaver,  for  a 

year’s  rent  of  a  dwelling-house  in  the  tenement  in  the  Wynd,  called  “  Lindsay’s 
Easter  Wynd,”  dated  27th  October,  1752. 


XV.— MOETCLOTHS. 

1. — Contract  of  Co-partnery  between  the  Incorporations  of  Tailors,  Wrights,  and  Weavers, 
under  which  their  Mortcloths  are  united  into  a  common  stock,  dated  8th  February, 
1774  (see  p.  125). 


2. — ”  Compt  of  the  several  things  contained  in  the  Mortcloths  box  ”  {circa,  1670). 


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XVI.— PUBLIC  AFFAIRS. 

1.  — Receipts  granted  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  City  of  Glasgow  to  the  Weavers  for  payment 

of  £200,  being  the  Craft’s  contribution  towards  raising  the  Regiment  of  Royal 
Glasgow  Volunteers,  dated  February  and  April,  1770. 

2.  — Receipt  for  payment  of  account  for  advertising  the  Resolutions  of  the  Incorporation  of 

Weavers  against  the  Police  Bill,  dated  9th  May,  1792. 

3.  — Receipt  for  payment  of  £105.  being  Weavers’  Subscription  to  the  Glasgow  Infirmary, 

dated  20th  September,  1792. 


XVII.— MISCELLANEOUS. 

1.  — Feu  Charter  by  Thomas  Robson,  burgess  of  Rutherglen,  and  James  Robson  to  John 

Hamilton,  in  Newton,  of  “  Melvinis  orchard,”  situated  between  Rutherglen  and 
Ferme,  dated  22nd  October,  1589. 

2.  — Copy  Charter  of  Erection  in  favour  of  the  Faculty  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  the 

City  of  Glasgow,  dated  29th  November,  1599. 

3.  — Discharge  by  Colonel  Walter  Whitefurd,  son  of  the  deceased  Lord  Bishop  of  Brechin, 

to  James  Nisbit,  portioner  of  Auchinairn,  of  all  duties  due  by  him  under  the  Decreet 
obtained  before  the  Lords  of  Council  at  the  instance  of  Walter  WTiiteford  against 
the  ”  heritors  and  possessors  of  lands  within  the  subdeanrie  of  Glasgow,”  dated 
16th  March,  1670. 

4.  — Assignation  by  Christian  Hastie,  relict  of  Wm.  Watson,  weaver,  to  her  youngest 

daughter,  Barbara,  of  the  Bond  granted  on  18th  August,  1709,  in  her  favour  by 
Robert  Dobbie ;  dated  5th  September,  1717. 

5.  — Extract  Decreet  before  Matthew  Gilmour,  bailie,  at  the  instance  of  Christian  Hastie 

against  Robert  Dobbie,  dated  11th  December,  1718. 

6.  — Assignation  by  Barbara  Watson  to  James  Wilson,  weaver,  of  a  Bond  for  100  merits 

Scots  assigned  to  her  by  her  mother,  dated  6th  February,  1719. 

7.  — Extract  Registered  Bond  granted  by  John  M'Kie,  gardener,  and  his  wife  in  favour  of 

Wm.  Morrison,  younger,  gardener,  and  his  wife,  for  1300  merits  Scots  borrowed 
money,  dated  8th  October,  1605. 

8.  — Disposition  in  Security  of  Bond,  by  John  M'Kie,  gardener,  to  Wm.  Morrison,  younger, 

and  his  wife,  of  his  lands  lying  within  the  burgh  ol  Glasgow,  dated  18th  September, 
1706. 


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9. — Bond  of  Provision  by  Francis  Reid,  weaver  in  Glasg;ow,  to  the  Weaver  Craft,  making 
provision  for  the  sum  of  £100  being  paid  to  the  Weavers  at  his  death,  upon  con¬ 
dition  that  they  oblige  themselves  to  pay  £5  yearly  to  a  poor  weaver  burgess  to  be 
nominated  by  Janet  Reid,  his  wife,  and  failing  her  by  his  nearest  male  relative, 
dated  ISth  February,  1774. 

10.  — Letter  of  Presentation  of  James  Seott  to  the  benefit  of  Francis  Reid’s  Mortification, 

dated  7th  April,  1807. 

11.  — Letters  of  Presentations  made  to  the  benefit  of  John  M' Indoe’s  Mortification,  1770-8. 

12.  — Memorial  for  the  Committee  appointed  by  the  Manufacturers  and  Operative  Weavers 

in  and  about  Glasgow  in  connection  with  the  state  of  the  trade,  dated  13th  March, 
1801. 

13.  — Complainer’s  Reply  and  Defender’s  Duply  in  the  dispute  between  Andrew  Galloway  (in 

Auchinairn)  and  James  Stevenson,  complainers,  and  Wm.  Lyle,  defender  (see 
IX.,  24). 

14.  — Three  Embossed  Prints  wrapped  up  in  paper,  which  bears  the  following  endorsement  in 

an  18th  century  hand  :  “  Inclosed  are  three  valuable  pictures  of  our  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  Virgin  Mary,  etc.,  which  are  seabed  up  by  ordor  of  the  Deacon  and 
masters  of  the  Weavers  in  Glasgow,  and  all  persons  are  discharged  to  open  or 
breach  up  the  same  under  their  highest  perrill,  1563.” 


APPENDIX  VII. 


EOLL  OF  MEMBERS 

OF 

THE  INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS. 


Revised  Lammas,  1863,  and  brought  doivn  to  June,  1908. 


Note. — The  addresses  given  in  this  list  are  in  nearly  all  cases  those  of  members  as  at  the  date 
of  their  joining  the  Incorporation.  These  original  addresses  have  been  retained  for  the  purposes 
of  identification.  More  recent  addresses  will  in  many  cases  be  found  in  the  alphabetical  list 
appearing  on  page  154  et  seq.  For  the  sake  of  brevity  the  word  “  Glasgow  ”  has  been  omitted 
after  the  streets,  etc.,  in  Glasgow,  and  for  the  last  twenty  years  the  occupations  of  members 
have  also  been  omitted. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1795-96  James  Paton. 

1798-99  David  Stevenson. 

1801-02  William  Lee. 

1803-04  James  Brodie. 

1807- 08  John  Gardner. 

Samuel  Easton,  82  Mitchell  Street. 
William  Hunter,  jun. 

Thomas  Alston,  jun.,  52  Weaver  Street. 
Robert  Buchanan. 

John  Scouller. 

1808- 09  John  Mitchell. 

James  Fleming. 

John  Blackie,  36  North  Frederick  Street. 

1809- 10  David  Blackburn,  5  I.ynedoch  Crescent. 

Donald  M‘ Gregor. 

Robert  Brown. 

David  Davidson,  Berwick. 

Hugh  Tennent,  sen.,  of  Wellpark. 


Mel^l^rship.  Names  of  Members. 

1809- 10  Thomas  Kirkpatrick. 

John  Boyd. 

1810- 11  William  Corbett,  2  Mansfield  Place. 

William  Morrison. 

Robert  White,  jun.,  256  West  George  St. 
James  Henderson. 

Thomas  Goodwin,  Canada. 

1811- 12  John  Cooper,  9  Mansfield  Place. 

David  M'Kinlay,  of  Oswald  Bank. 

1812- 13  Robert  Kirkwood,  40  Miller  Street. 

David  M'Gown. 

John  Gray,  Helensburgh. 

Duncan  M'Nee,  Partick. 

George  Miller. 

James  Muir. 

1813- 14  William  Buchanan,  Perth. 

William  Gray. 

Thomas  Thomson. 

James  Graham. 


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APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1813- 14  John  Barbour,  Manchester. 

Henry  Corbett. 

Jas.  Brown,  1  St.  James  Street,  P.  Road. 
Thomas  Nicolson. 

Andrew  Grant,  32  Parson  Street. 

James  Pro  van. 

John  Toll  an. 

William  Armour. 

Donald  Campbell,  Stirling. 

William  Carlyle. 

Duncan  Buchanan. 

George  Ross  Wilsone,  Endrick  Bank. 

1814- 15  John  Heriot,  Greenock. 

Robert  Forrester. 

Hugh  Brown,  jun.,  104  Virginia  Place. 
Robert  Freeland,  jun.,  of  Gryfe  Castle. 
Andrew  Buchanan. 

John  Brown. 

James  Paterson,  17  Virginia  Street. 
Thomas  Taylor. 

William  Brown. 

Archibald  Kelso. 

Samuel  Harper,  99  Waterloo  Street. 

1815- 16  Alexander  Stevenson,  93  So.  Portland  St. 

Hugh  Stevenson. 

Andrew  Waters,  Edinburgh. 

John  Fairie. 

Robert  M'Lauren. 

James  Mutrie. 

Duncan  Cameron,  Helensburgh. 

George  Burns,  9  Buchanan  Street. 

Thomas  Davidson,  46  John  Street. 

John  Robertson,  son  of  Matthew. 

Duncan  M'Nab,  .son  of  Robert. 

1816- 17  David  M'Gown. 

Robt.  Wilson,  96  Regent  Terrace. 

James  Campbell, 

Thomas  Muir,  Madeira. 

George  Watson,  Hogganfield. 

Robert  MTndoe,  9  Exchange  Square. 

John  Allan,  Partick. 

Robert  Walker,  of  Lethamhill. 

John  Graham.  64  Buccleuch  Street. 
Richard  John  Mayne. 

Alexander  Glasgow,  Ireland. 

Thomas  Jardine. 

John  Jamieson,  58  Dundas  Street. 
Matthew  Alexander,  2  Burnbank  Gardens. 
James  Towers. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1817- 18  William  M'Lean,  of  Plantation. 

William  Robertson. 

John  Lenney. 

Robert  M'Limont. 

William  Marshall,  8  Scotia  Street. 

Joseph  Shankley. 

Thomas  Waddell,  Ayr. 

Archibald  Fraser. 

William  Anderson. 

Daniel  Wright,  13  Glebe  Street. 

James  Miller,  jun. 

Jonathan  Thomlinson. 

David  Smith,  St.  Rollox. 

John  M'Lellan,  Paisley. 

1818- 19  John  Bartholomew,  jun.,  1  Dundas  St. 

William  Austin,  24  St.  Vincent  Place. 
Robert  Goodwin,  Rock  Villa,  Melbourne. 
Hugh  Ritchie. 

Robert  Urquhart,  of  Moss,  Govan. 

David  Miller,  jun. 

Alexander  Buchan,  Cambuslang. 

Peter  Dallas,  17  Cochrane  Street. 

Rev.  Matthew  Barclay,  Old  Kilpatrick. 
John  Fleming,  104  Virginia  Street. 

Andrew  Buist,  Ireland. 

1819- 20  John  Gibson. 

John  Murray. 

John  Smith,  3  Burnbank  Place. 

Robert  Hamilton. 

Robert  M'Haffie,  of  Eastwood. 

James  M'Haffie,  37  Garnethill  Street. 
Walter  W.  Whiteman,  Dunoon. 

James  Fleming,  Dunoon. 

John  M'Kinlay. 

1820- 21  George  Lyon  Walker,  117  Candleriggs. 

William  Patrick,  Cathedral  Lodge. 

John  Cree,  22  St.  George’s  Road. 

John  Cowan,  Union  Bank. 

John  Baird,  America. 

Thomas  Dickson. 

James  Gray,  16  Hamilton  Park  Terrace. 
Alexander  Cowan,  47  Scott  Street. 

Robert  Stewart,  1  West  Regent  Street. 

1821- 22  William  Mutrie,  28  St.  Enoch  Square,  son 

of  David. 

Robert  Mutrie,  son  of  David. 

Robert  Black,  9  Royal  Exchange  Square, 
son  ofy James, 


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Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1821- 22  John  Niven,  son  of  David. 

Sir  James  Campbell,  of  Stracathro. 

William  Campbell,  of  Tilliechewan. 

George  Smith,  208  Argyle  Street. 

Thomas  Speir,  of  Blackstone,  son  of  Robert. 
James  Anderson. 

Robert  Ferguson,  son  of  James. 

James  Somerville. 

David  Anderson,  80  Queen  Street,  son  of 
John. 

Thomas  H.  Herbertson,  Port  Dundas,  son 
of  John. 

Herbert  Buchanan,  241  West  George  St. 
William  Bankier,  66  George  Square,  son- 
in-law  of  William  Dennistoun. 

John  Adam,  son-in-law  of  a  Member. 
David  Campbell. 

Robert  Finlayson,  jun.,  London,  son  of 
Robert. 

1822- 23  John  M'Lymont. 

John  Meikle,  America. 

John  Moffat. 

James  Hamilton,  .Ascog  Bank,  son  of 
Patrick. 

John  Hamilton,  Canada,  son  of  Patrick. 
Alexander  Reid. 

John  Smith,  155  Queen  Street. 

1823- 24  William  Meikle,  28  Eglinton  Street. 

John  Russell. 

Gilbert  Weir,  220  West  Regent  Street. 
Robert  Gilmour,  184  Buchanan  Street. 
Andrew  Hamilton,  Hillhead. 

Andrew  Harvey. 

John  Donaldson,  68  Arg^de  Street. 

Peter  Donaldson,  London. 

Robert  Cairnduff,  29  Houston  Street. 

John  Gardner. 

David  Wright,  son  of  a  Member. 

Andrew  Galbraith,  4  Bothwell  Street. 

John  Kerr,  jun.,  12  Queen’s  Crescent. 
Andrew  Smith,  jun.,  3  Burnbank  Place. 

1824- 25  James  Stevenson. 

Gavin  Walker,  5  George  Square. 

John  Morris. 

Alexander  Guthrie,  103  Hill  Street. 

Walter  Lees,  43  Renfield  Street. 

James  Morris,  America. 

Sir  James  Anderson,  3  Blythswood  Square. 
John  M’Farlane,  M.D.,  Helensburgh. 


Year  of  ..  ,  , 

Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1824- 25  Hugh  .Smith,  94  Miller  Street. 

Daniel  M'Kay,  1  Dixon  Street. 

James  Spreull,  182  Trongate. 

Samuel  Spreull,  Toronto. 

Andrew  Wilson,  20  South  Frederick  St. 
John  MacFarlane,  E. 

John  Wliite. 

James  Hart,  25  Cochrane  Street. 

Patrick  Stevenson,  Australia. 

James  Cochran  Miller. 

John  Liddell,  50  St.  Ninian  Street. 
Alexander  Buchanan,  America. 

Johnstone  Thomson,  America. 

1825- 26  Robert  Craig. 

Walter  Graham  M'Adam,  Easterhou.'^e. 
Robert  Buchanan,  19  Cochrane  Street. 
Henry  Gray,  London. 

Walter  Buchanan,  M.P.,  of  Shandon. 
John  Alexander,  London. 

George  Graham. 

Alexander  Couper,  193  Bath  Street. 
Daniel  Riddell,  Bothwell. 

Alexander  MT.ean,  98  Fyfe  Place. 
Alexander  P'ield,  Lanark. 

John  Smith,  Helensburgh. 

Peter  Murdoch. 

1826- 27  James  Watson,  343  High  Street. 

William  Gemmell,  America. 

Robert  Bell. 

Alexander  Abercromby,  1  Prince’s  Court. 

1827- 28  Robert  Ferguson. 

William  Turnbull. 

John  Clark,  10  Walworth  Terrace. 

Peter  M’Dowall. 

Hugh  Barclay,  LL.D.,  Sheriff  of  Perth. 
William  C.  Alston,  Australia. 

John  Alston,  Helensburgh. 

James  Frew,  Australia. 

John  Miller. 

John  Calder,  69  Ingram  Street. 

Frederick  Hope  Pattison,  Duntocher. 
William  Blackwood,  34  Kent  Street. 
Thomas  White,  28  St.  Vincent  Place. 
William  Lyall,  170  Kent  Road. 

James  Scott,  66  Hutcheson  Street. 
Alexander  Cameron,  Sydney. 

Robert  Laing. 

William  Ewing,  Saltcoats. 

Henry  Knox,  jun.,  London. 


194 


APPENDIX. 


Me'mbLship.  Members. 

1827- 28  Henry  Pollock. 

Joseph  Watson. 

James  Papillon  Jamieson,  Gourock. 
Edward  Broughton. 

1828- 29  George  Grant,  Mile-end. 

Archibald  Mitchell. 

Duncan  M'Larty. 

John  Steven,  59  Maxwell  Street. 

James  Stiven,  82  West  Nile  Street. 

James  Corsan,  America. 

John  Buchanan,  108  Hutcheson  Street. 
John  Jack,  Carluke. 

William  Muir. 

David  Wilson,  145  Eglinton  Street. 

George  Campbell. 

Andrew  Campbell. 

James  Douglas,  Prince’s  Square. 

Andrew  Campbell,  80  Dry  gate  Street. 

John  M'Allister,  jun.,  159  West  George  St. 
John  Houston,  105  Miller  Street. 

James  M'lntosh. 

Archibald  M'Lymont. 

James  Broom,  Sanquhar. 

1829- 30  William  Thomson. 

John  Steel,  1  North  Claremont  Street. 
Peter  Morrison. 

Robert  Scott. 

Charles  M'Kenzie,  21  Bath  Street. 

John  M'Lellan. 

David  Boyd. 

James  Martin. 

William  Craig,  Rothesay. 

1830- 31  William  Paterson. 

James  William  Alston,  142  W.  George  St. 
David  Gowdie,  jun.,  Arran. 

David  Woodrow  Martin,  180  W.  Regent  St. 
Thomas  Wilson,  145  Ingram  Street. 

Gavin  Rae,  jun.,  35  Montrose  Street. 

John  M'Haffie,  London. 

Robert  Bartholomew,  1  Dundas  Street. 
William  Martin,  34  Hutcheson  Street. 
William  Mitchell, 

Dugald  Bannatyne. 

Robert  Penney. 

John  Murdoch,  38  Queen  Street. 

Allan  Burnside,  Crossmyloof. 

James  M'Allister. 

William  Moir,  Manchester. 

William  Ritchie,  184  Crown  .Street. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1830- 31  James  Fleming. 

John  Blackie,  jun.,  .36  North  Frederick  St. 

1831- 32  Arthur  Scouller,  Australia. 

Robert  Cogan,  32  West  George  Street. 
Andrew  Paterson,  201  Gt.  Eastern  Road. 
David  Stow,  Port  Eglinton. 

John  Forsyth,  39  Drygate. 

William  King,  78  Queen  Street. 

Hugh  Morton. 

John  Anderson,  80  Queen  Street. 

John  Muir,  133  Drygate. 

William  Bisset,  15  Scotia  Street. 

William  M'Lean,  jun.,  15  Cochrane  Street. 
Fergus  Ferguson,  1 1  Walmer  Crescent. 
Matthew  Perston  Bell,  Glasgow  Potterju 
William  Duguid  Hill,  Neilston. 

John  James  Muir,  1  So.  Flanover  St. 

James  Shaw,  12  Royal  Exchange  Square. 

1832- 33  Alexander  Robertson,  38  Queen  .Street. 

William  Robertson,  38  Queen  Street. 
Robert  M'Michael,  Australia. 

John  Bell  Lowry. 

Alexander  Lowrie,  Australia. 

Alexander  Purdie,  America. 

Walter  Alexander,  2  Burnbank  Gardens. 
William  Walker. 

Lorraine  Wilson,  Port  Eglinton. 

Thomas  Kennedy,  1  Woodlands  Road. 
John  Hood,  20  Union  Street. 

John  Gibson,  134  Queen  Street. 

James  Graham,  jun.,  184  George  Street. 
Robert  Smith,  208  Argyle  Street. 

George  Smith,  jun.,  208  Argyle  Street. 
Robert  Walker. 

Humphrey  E.  Crum  Ewing,  M.P.,  of  Strath 
Leven. 

Alexander  Ferguson,  27  Balmano  Street. 
John  Finlay,  12  Renfield  Street. 

James  Somerville. 

William  Hinshaw,  17  John  Street. 

Robert  Jeffrey,  110  Brunswick  Street. 

John  Auchinvole,  4  Montrose  Street. 

James  Colquhoun. 

James  Scott  Kelly. 

John  Brebner. 

James  Richmond,  2  Park  Quadrant. 

1833- 34  John  Howatt. 

Alexander  Anderson,  16  Prince’s  Square. 
Thomas  Steel,  Stirling. 


APPENDIX. 


195 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1833- 34  John  Armour,  America. 

William  Burnside. 

George  Morrison,  62  Queen  Street. 
Alexander  Giffen,  161  Hope  Street. 
Alexander  Malcolm,  13  Dundas  Street. 

1834- 35  Samuel  R.  Brown,  Paris. 

Thomas  Brown,  80  Queen  Street. 
Archibald  Glen,  124  Hope  Street. 

Peter  Wilson. 

Matthew  Hamilton,  Dunoon. 

James  Swan,  159  W.  George  Street. 
William  Service,  of  Culcreuch. 

Alexander  Mather,  Edinburgh. 

Thomas  Jackson. 

William  Hutton,  9  Belgrove  Street. 

John  Graham,  196  North  Street. 

James  Dunlop. 

Allan  M'Dougall,  127  Brunswick  Street. 
Walter  Carswell. 

William  Fleming. 

James  M‘ Alpine,  Town’s  Hospital. 
William  Aitken,  20  St.  George’s  Road. 

1835- 36  John  Rae,  130  Brooraielaw. 

Andrew  Morrison,  Manchester. 

John  Orr,  137  New  City  Road. 

Peter  Drew,  66  Wilson  Street. 

1836- 37  William  Alston,  95  West  George  Street. 

Duncan  Hunter,  jun.,  105  Douglas  Street. 
James  Smith. 

Charles  M‘ Naught. 

Alexander  Burns. 

William  Brown. 

James  Lang,  100  Crown  Street. 

1837- 38  George  Grant,  ter..  Mile-end. 

Malcolm  M'Lellan,  3  Claremont  Gardens. 
Allan  Ralston. 

Alexander  Bartholomew,  1 1 1  Ingram  St. 
William  Chisholm,  jun. 

John  Fonlds,  Johnstone. 

John  Walker,  jun.,  London. 

Francis  Moore,  13  Little  Hamilton  Street. 
William  Allan. 

Robert  Allan. 

William  M'Allister,  Paisley. 

George  Jasper  Lyon,  Arran. 

Thomas  Ross,  jun.,  87  South  Portland  St. 

1838- 39  Andrew  Thomson,  52  West  Nile  Street. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1838- 39  William  Govan,  15  Renlield  Street. 

Robert  Shaw. 

John  Broadley,  145  Queen  Street. 

Robert  Kerr,  jun.,  Liverpool. 

George  Lyle,  19  Montrose  Street. 

Matthew  Letham,  London. 

Giles  Dickson,  Australia. 

Alexander  M'Kean,  35  Renfrew  Street. 
John  Russell. 

James  I.awrie. 

William  Richard  Paterson,  of  Balornoch. 
Alexander  Turner,  124  Hope  .Street. 
Andrew  Wilson,  167  Stirling  Road. 

1839- 40  William  M'Leod,  Edinburgh. 

James  Russell. 

Robert  Wylie,  130  Paisley  Road. 

James  Dalrymple. 

William  Morrison,  135  Buchanan  Street. 
Daniel  Walker,  Australia. 

John  Walker,  Australia. 

David  M' Donald,  America. 

William  Christie,  153  Queen  Street. 
William  Kirkland,  Manchester. 

James  Kirkland. 

1840- 41  Alexander  .Speirs,  Houston  Street. 

James  Church,  Liverpool. 

Alexander  Beith. 

John  Brown,  Paisley. 

James  Tait,  Moffat. 

James  Perston,  10  Greyfriar  Wynd. 
Edward  Alexander,  43  West  Campbell  St. 
Patrick  Ewing,  Belfast. 

John  Wyse. 

Robert  Watt,  jun. 

James  Clark,  Manchester. 

Duncan  Turner,  229  Argyle  Street. 

George  Martin,  124  Hope  Street. 

1841- 42  Nathaniel  Templeton,  20  Monteith  Row. 

James  Hutchison,  or  M‘ Hutcheson, 
Australia. 

William  M'Dougall,  Weaver  Street. 

James  Russell,  38  Paterson  Street. 

John  Morrison,  Govan. 

James  Cowan,  72  Virginia  Street. 

Charles  Campbell,  Campsie. 

1842- 43  Joseph  Ewing,  57  Miller  Street. 

John  Graham,  Dunoon. 

Henry  Balneaves,  178  Castle  Street. 


196 


APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1842- 43  Anthony  Wigham  Nicholson,  Manchester. 

Robert  Muir  Steven,  15  Cochrane  Street. 
William  Graham. 

James  Laird  Morrison,  62  Queen  .Street. 

1843- 44  George  Thomson,  69  Ingram  Street. 

James  Paul,  110  Buchanan  Street. 

William  Somerville,  116  St.  Vincent  Street. 
James  Wotherspoon,  Perth. 

William  Peebles. 

1844- 45  Alexander  Broadfoot. 

James  Howie  Young,  64  Gordon  Street. 
Lewis  Park. 

Charles  Park. 

John  Knox,  73  Brunswick  Street. 

Thomas  Finlayson,  41  Brunswick  Street. 
William  Fraser,  45  Buccleuch  Street. 

John  Clapperton,  26  Exchange  Square. 
David  Scott,  82  West  Nile  Street. 

1845  -46  John  Coulter,  52  Tylefield  Street. 

David  Brock. 

James  Leek,  Canny! e. 

-  John  Stewart,  22  Ingram  Street. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1853- 54  Henry  Bruce,  123  St.  Vincent  Street. 

1854- 55  David  Wright,  44  Trongate. 

1855- 56  Ebenezer  Bry.son,  101  Green  Street. 

John  Wilson,  45  Drygate. 

Andrew  Harv^ey,  15  Morrison  Street. 
William  Andrew,  45  Drygate. 

1856- 57  James  Millen,  1 16  George  Street. 

George  Blackwood,  56  Old  Vennel. 
John  Murray,  167  Stirling  Road. 

James  Downie,  91  Hutchison  Street. 
John  Eason,  390  Duke  .Street. 

Robert  Dalglish,  M.P.,  of  Kilmardinny. 

1857- 58  David  Hutcheson,  22  Struthers  Street. 

Joseph  Service,  48  Gordon  Street. 

John  Morrison,  29  Spoutmouth. 
William  Johnston,  52  Howard  Street. 
Walter  M'Lintock,  City  Hall. 

John  Earston,  69  St.  Vincent  Street. 

1858- 59  James  M'Lintock,  5  St.  John’s  Place. 

William  M'Kinlay,  54  Union  Street. 


1847- 48  John  White,  161  Eglinton  Street. 

1848- 49  William  M.  Turner,  111  Ingram  Street. 

1849- 50  Robert  Muir,  116  St.  Vincent  Street. 

James  Smart,  Police  Buildings. 

William  Kidston,  50  West  Regent  Street. 
John  Kidston,  50  West  Regent  Street. 
James  B.  Kidston,  50  West  Regent  Street. 
Michael  Kidston,  Melbourne. 

John  M'Farlane.  LL.D.,  London. 

18.50-51  John  M'Lellan,  341  St.  Vincent  Street. 

Donald  M'Lellan,  341  St.  Vincent  Street. 
William  Speirs,  2  St.  Andrew’s  Square. 
David  Yuille,  40  Miller  Street. 

Robert  Douie,  77  Renfield  Street,  son-in- 
law  of  R.  Urquhart. 

James  Ritchie  M'Nair,  son  of  Ritchie,  173 
Buchanan  Street. 

John  Russell,  Dunoon. 

1851-52  James  Fraser,  America. 

Andrew  Marshall,  48  I.ondon  Street. 

Arthur  Bryson. 


1859- 60  Donald  Simpson  M'Nair,  16  Turner’s  Court. 

James  Gourlay,  Bank  of  Scotland. 

Forrest  Frew,  6  Hampton  Court  Terrace. 
Alexander  M'Kay,  113  Virginia  Place. 

John  Miller,  18  High  Street. 

1860- 61  Andrew  M' Gregor,  Carmichael  Castle. 

William  Stobo,  60  Rottenrow. 

William  Wright,  Phoenix  Foundry. 

William  Henry  Alston,  Australia. 

Andrew  Steven,  151  Gallowgate. 

George  M'Lellan,  341  St.  Vincent  Street. 
James  Bain,  141  Argyle  Street. 

William  Renney  Findlay,  62  Queen  Street. 
William  Cowan,  64  .St.  Vincent  Street. 
William  MacLean,  41  West  George  Street. 
Peter  Graham,  1  West  Milton  Street. 
Alexander  Finlay,  22  Adam’s  Court  Lane. 
James  Wallace  Anderson,  62  Queen  .Street. 
William  Govan,  ]un.,  15  Renfield  Street. 
James  Main,  Airdrie. 

John  Murchie,  Merchant,  Glasgow. 

Andrew  Gumming,  179  Argyle  Street. 
Alexander  Woodrow,  75  Glassford  Street. 
John  Mair,  106  Argyle  Street. 


APPENDIX. 


197 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1860- 61  Hugh  Wilson,  73  Glassford  Street. 

Joseph  M'Culloch,  15  Castle  Street. 

1861- 62  Peter  Burn,  9  Exchange  Place. 

James  Stirling,  116  Rottenrow. 

James  Harvey,  Bridgeton. 

George  Scott.  Alnwick. 

Peter  Walker,  59  St.  Vincent  Street. 

John  M'Cubbin,  Innellan. 

David  M'Cubbin,  93  West  Regent  Street. 
John  Fraser.  4  St.  Andrew’s  Square. 
Thomas  Millen,  3  Ronald  Street. 

James  Barr,  Parkhead. 

1862- 63^Ebenezer  Henry,  51  Buchanan  Street,  son- 

in-law  of  Matt.  Walker. 

Ebenezer  Walker  Henry,  son  of  Ebenezer. 
Matthew  Henry,  son  of  Ebenezer. 

Robert  Gourlay,  Edinburgh,  son  of  Jas. 
Gourlay. 

Henry  Shaw  M’Pherson,  80  Gordon  Street, 
son-in-law  of  James  Gourlay. 

Robert  Gourlay,  12  Howard  Street,  son-in- 
law  of  James  Gourlay. 

William  M’Queen,  29  Bobbie’s  Loan,  son  of 
William. 

James  Anderson,  4  St.  Vincent  Place. 
Thomas  Whyte,  6  Union  Street,  Calton, 
son  of  Francis. 

Thomas  Williamson,  179  West  George  St. 
William  Scott,  33  Renlield  Street. 

John  Knox,  jun.,  73  Brunswick  Street,  son 
of  John. 

William  Millar,  High  Street,  son  of  John. 
William  Muir  Ferguson,  Mercantile  Ad¬ 
vertiser,  son  of  Alexander. 

1863- 64  David  Auchinvole,  son-in-law  of  John 

Turnbull. 

Matthew  Fairley,  47  Queen  Street, 

Thomas  Mabon,  son  of  David. 

Walter  Muir,  Collector  of  Police  Rates, 
son  of  John. 

James  Fleming,  Wright,  son  of  John. 
James  Danskin,  24  Garscadden  Street,  son- 
in-law  of  And.  Hardie. 

Thomas  Forsyth,  Storekeeper,  Motherwell, 
son  of  John. 

Alexander  Birrell,  4-5  George  Square. 

John  Danskin,  306  Argyle  Street,  son  of 
James. 

George  Gibson,  Merchant,  163  Ingram  St. 


Membership.  Barnes  of  Members. 

1864-65  Adam  Moffat,  son-in-law  of  David  Ewing. 

David  Bryce,  Stationer,  son  of  David. 

James  Alexander,  Merchant. 

Joseph  Bayley,  Merchant. 

John  Robertson,  son  of  John. 

Rev.  John  Dick  Fleming,  son  of  Rev.  Wm. 

Robert  Fleming,  Merchant,  son  of  Rev.  Wm. 

Wm.  M'Bride,  Manufacturer. 

Alex.  Miller,  Merchant,  son  of  Alexander, 
deceased. 

Alex.  Miller,  jun..  Merchant,  son  of  Alex. 

George  M'Leod,  Manufacturer. 

Rev.  Wm.  Leggatt,  Buchanan  Institution. 

Hugh  Corbett  Taylor,  M.D.,  son-in-law  of 
And.  Marshall. 

1865  -66  John  Thos.  Herbertson,  Merchant,  Canal 
Office,  son  of  Thos.  Hopkirk  Herbert¬ 
son. 

James  Paul,  Skinner,  son  of  William. 

Daniel  Wright,  Hammerman,  younger  son 
of  Daniel. 

Robert  Leckie,  Warper,  7  Stanhope  Street, 
eldest  son  of  John  Leckie. 

Joseph  Watson,  Merchant,  16  Sauchiehall 
Street,  son  of  William. 

James  Barr,  Merchant,  157  Rutherglen 
Loan,  son  of  James. 

Wm.  Bankier,  Merchant,  15  Renfield  St., 
son  of  Wm. 

JamesThomson,  Flesher,  25  Monteith  Row. 

Archd.  Hay,  Power  Loom  Manufactui'er, 
Clyde  Factory,  Dalmarnock. 

1866-67  William  Arneil,  Hairdresser,  96  Glassfoid 
Street. 

William  MacI.ean,  Accountant,  West 
George  Street. 

William  Watson,  Bootmaker,  Glasgow. 

James  Smith,  Confectioner,  Queen  Street. 

John  Stewart  Mair,  Lace  Merchant,  106 
Argyle  Street. 

Wm.  Brown  Torrance,  Agent,  55  Hutche¬ 
son  Street, 

Alex.  M’Laren,  Merchant,  8-12  Buchanan 
Street. 

Alex.  Begg,  Manufacturer,  263  Argyle  St. 

Matthew  Forsyth,  Grocer,  69  Taylor  St. 

James  Craig,  Wine  Merchant,  4  Carlton 
Place. 

James  Craig,  jun..  Wine  Merchant,  264 
St.  Vincent  Street. 


198 


APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1866- 67  William  Blackburn  Craig,  Drysalter  and  Oil 

Merchant,  Glasgow. 

Michael  Wright  Fleming,  Warehouseman, 
97  Montrose  Street. 

Thomas  Struthers,  Upholsterer,  96 
Buchanan  Street. 

William  Sim,  Granite  Merchant,  Glasgow. 

1867- 68  Allan  Houston  M'Lellan,  Merchant, 

Glasgow. 

James  Morton,  M.D.  and  Surgeon,  109 
Bath  Street. 

.'Mex.  Buchanan,  Letterpress  Printer, 
Glasgow. 

William  Miller,  Bishopbriggs. 

Walter  Banner  man,  Wright,  Gordon  Street. 
John  Buchanan,  Custom  House  Officer, 
Glasgow. 

Rev.  Gilbert  Johnston,  Shettleston. 

Win.  Johnston,  Sugar  Refiner,  Glasgow. 
John  Johnston,  Merchant,  Glasgow. 

James  Downie,  Manufacturer,  12  Montrose 
Street. 

John  Gartshore,  Manufacturer,  So.  Hanover 
Street. 

James  Couper,  Yarn  Merchant,  Smith’s 
Court. 

Daniel  Brown,  Confectioner,  60  Queen  St. 
Alex.  Pollock,  Grocer,  87  Gallowgate. 

1868- 69  Wm.  Taylor,  Starcher,  Stirling  Road. 

Samuel  Macfarlane,  Merchant,  West  George 
Street. 

Wm.  Reid,  Surgeon,  2  Morris  Place,  Mon- 
teith  Row. 

Henry  Morrison,  Iron  Turner,  Glasgow. 
Andrew  Mitchell,  Draper,  Cowcaddens  St. 
James  Hutton,  C. .A..,  Glasgow. 

William  Calder  Salmon,  Shuttlemaker, 
Duke  Street. 

1869- 70  James  Robson,  Teacher  of  Music,  94 

Montrose  Street. 

James  Forbes,  Letter  Carrier,  5  Shamrock 
Street. 

David  Cherry,  Maltman,  76.J  Kirk  Street, 
Cal  ton. 

Robert  Miller,  Bookseller,  186  Trongate. 
William  Cherry,  Maltman. 

James  Murdoch,  Photographer,  1  Quarry 
Street,  Hamilton. 

I'hos.  Maltman,  Warehouseman,  Glasgow. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1869- 70  Hugh  Andrew,  Warper,  6  Glebe  Street. 

James  Winning,  Cashier,  3  Cathkin  Terrace, 
Mount  Florida. 

1870- 71  Alexander  Laird,  Warehouseman,  Glasgow. 

John  Gilchrist  Stewart,  Clerk  in  Glasgow. 

Archibald  Arnott,  Clerk,  221  St.  Vincent 
Street. 

J  ames  Laird,  1 2  Strathmore  Street,  Bridge- 
end,  Perth. 

Robert  Walker,  Warehouseman,  Glasgow. 

Robert  Downie,  jun..  Dyer  in  Glasgow. 

James  Thom,  Manufacturer,  Park  View 
Factory,  Glasgow. 

Thomas  Taylor  Brown,  Calenderer,  28 
Cochrane  Street. 

Robert  M'Connell,  Bleacher,  209  North 
Woodside  Road. 

John  Macfarlane,  Baker,  486  Duke  Street. 

Robert  Fisher  Alexander,  Oil  Merchant, 
Glasgow. 

William  .\lexander.  Writer,  Glasgow. 

James  Alexander,  jun..  Oil  Merchant, 
Glasgow. 

Ernest  Smith,  Manufacturing  Chemist, 
Glasgow. 

Robert  Asheton  Napier,  Engineer  and  Iron 
Shipbuilder,  Glasgow. 

William  Galloway,  Manufacturer,  49  Vir¬ 
ginia  Street. 

Adam  Elliott,  Yetholm,  near  Kelso. 

Samuel  Wilson,  Merchant,  61  Oswald  St. 

James  Barr,  Manufacturer,  54  Gordon 
Street. 

Alex.  Fullarton  Barr,  Manufacturer,  54 
Gordon  Street. 

William  Burn,  Auctioneer  and  Valuator, 
9  Royal  Exchange  Place. 

James  Downie,  jun..  Yam  Merchant,  69 
Ingram  Street. 

John  Shaw  Thomson,  Manufacturer,  69 
Ingram  Street. 

Thos.  Crawford,  Manufacturer,  9  Frederick 
Street. 

Robert  Murdoch,  Banker,  City  of  Glasgow 
Bank,  Virginia  Street. 

Thomas  Robinson  Johnstone,  Merchant, 
19  West  Nile  Street. 

James  Findlay,  Manufacturer,  68  Gordon 
Street. 

Thomas  Lucas  Paterson,  Merchant,  New- 
hall  House,  Dowanhill  Gardens. 


APPENDIX. 


199 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1871- 72  William  Scott  Paterson,  Merchant,  Glas¬ 

gow,  and  residing  at  Dowanhill  there. 

Robert  Muir,  Sewed  Muslin  Manufacturer, 
Ingram  Street. 

David  Kennedy,  Commission  Merchant,  14 
Queen  Street. 

Alexander  Robb,  Merchant,  203  Crown  St. 

Robert  Fyfe  Easton,  Calendercr,  82  Mit¬ 
chell  Street. 

William  Duncan,  Merchant,  124  St. Vincent 
Street. 

William  Drysdale,  Banker,  Helensburgh. 

Alexander  Wilson  Clark,  Umbrella  Manu¬ 
facturer,  95  St.  Vincent  Street. 

John  Christie  Reid,  Chartered  Accountant. 
8  Princes  Square. 

Thomas  Millar  Fergusson,  Merchant,  89 
Mitchell  Street,  residing  at  Aytoun 
House,  Dowanhill. 

Andrew  Paterson,  Manufacturer,  4  St. 
John’s  Terrace,  Hillhead. 

Rev.  John  Brown  Johnston,  D.D.,  Minister 
U.P.  Church,  Govan. 

John  Hunter,  Manufacturer,  5  Ardine 
Terrace,  Crossbill. 

James  Wallace,  Bleacher  and  Finisher, 
Bnrnbank  (East),  Glasgow. 

George  Black,  Writer,  Glasgow. 

Alexander  Findlay,  Pianoforte  Maker,  110 
West  Nile  Street. 

Stephen  Mason,  Manufacturer,  Glasgow. 

William  Houston,  Merchant,  23  Royal 
Exchange  Square. 

George  Younger,  Yarn  Merchant,  1  North 
Court,  Royal  Exchange. 

1872- 73  William  Robb,  Merchant,  8  Ingram  Street. 

George  Patrick,  Warehouseman,  84  Great 
Hamilton  Street. 

Robert  Wilson  Bryson,  Commercial  Clerk, 
342  Duke  Street. 

David  Yuill,  Gardener,  Bluevale,  Glasgow. 

Henn,'^  Bruce,  jun..  Insurance  Agent,  Ren- 
held  Street. 

James  Campbell,  153  Renfield  Street. 

Hugh  Watson,  45  Drygate  Street. 

Ebenezer  Steel,  Annfield  Terrace,  Partick. 

William  Newlands,  6  Lynedoch  Crescent. 

David  Stobo,  Engineer,  Glasgow. 

1873- 74  James  Millen,  Cashier,  Glasgow. 

John  Millen,  Coalmaster,  Glasgow. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1873- 74  Alexander  Woodrow,  jun.,  Lithographer, 

Glasgow. 

Peter  Burn  Wilson,  Merchant,  Glasgow. 

James  Yuill,  Saddlers’  Ironmonger,  Glas¬ 
gow. 

John  Couper,  Yarn  Agent,  Glasgow. 

James  Couper,  Yarn  Agent,  Glasgow. 

Thomas  Keith,  Potter,  80  St.  James’  Road. 

David  .'Mexander  Black,  Accountant,  14 
Princes  Square. 

David  Henderson  Anderson,  Manufacturer, 
Glasgow. 

1874- 75  John  Wilson,  jun..  Engraver,  Glasgow. 

Robert  Thomson  Dodd,  Photographer, 
Glasgow. 

Walter  Macfarlan,  Ironfounder,  Glasgow. 

James  Fleming  Millar,  Cashier,  Glasgow. 

David  Paterson,  Drysalter,  Glasgow. 

James  Wilson,  West  India  Merchant,  30 
John  Street. 

William  M.  Mair,  Warehouseman,  83 
Sauchiehall  Street. 

Robt.  Alexander  Mair,  Accountant,  79 
St.  Vincent  Street. 

Charles  Stewart  Mair,  Grain  Merchant,  83 
Sauchiehall  Street. 

Adam  Kidd,  Manufacturer,  56  Brunswick 
Street. 

James  Thomson  Stewart,  Commission 
Merchant,  75  Bath  Street. 

Andrew  Lindsay,  Pentographer,  M'Neil  St. 

Thorburn  Alston,  Gilder,  26  Taylor  Street. 

1875- 76  John  Murray,  3  Tennant  St.,  Townhead. 

Robt.  Brodie,  Writer,  87  St.  Vincent  Street. 

James  Young,  Manufacturer,  64  Gordon 
Street. 

John  Ebenezer  Young,  Manufacturer,  64 
Gordon  Street. 

Robert  Bannerman,  Merchant,  19  Newton 
Street. 

Walter  Bannerman,  jun.,  Merchant,  13 
Jane  Street. 

Humphrey  Ewing  Crum-Ewing,  Merchant, 
68  George  Square. 

William  Johnson ‘Govan,  Manufacturer,  15 
Renfield  Street. 

Albert  Harvey,  Muslin  and  Tapestry 
Manufacturer,  63  Ingram  Street. 

John  Birkmyre  Wingate,  Manufacturer,  5 
Royal  Exchange  Square. 

c* 


200 


APPENDIX. 


Year  of 

Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1875- 76  Alex.  Wilson  Smart,  Manufacturer,  New 

Burnside  Mills,  103  Brook  Street, 
Mile  end. 

James  Alexander  Campbell,  LL.D.,  Mer¬ 
chant,  Glasgow. 

Thomas  Clavering,  Merchant,  21  St.  Vincent 
Place. 

Samuel  James  Harvey  Easton,  Warehouse¬ 
man,  68  Queen  Street. 

Samuel  Fyfe  Easton,  Merchant,  Gordon  St. 

Alex.  Grant,  Cotton  Spinner  and  Manu¬ 
facturer,  Broad  Street,  Mile-end. 

Robert  Walker,  of  Letham  Hill,  Manu¬ 
facturer,  Glasgow. 

George  Smith,  Shipowner,  200  Argyle  St. 

Jas.  Anderson,  Manufacturer,  Atlantic 
Mills,  Glasgow. 

Wm.  Horatio  Scott,  Merchant,  19  Great 
Western  Road. 

Innes  Wright  Scott,  Merchant,  12  Prince’s 
Terrace. 

Wm.  Fleming,  Warehouseman,  at  Messrs. 
Arthur  &  Co.’s,  Queen  Street. 

Gilbert  Taylor,  Merchant,  Messrs.  Plenry 
Monteith  &  Co.’s,  So.  Frederick  Street. 

James  Thom,  jun..  Manufacturer,  Parkview 
Factory,  Upper  Suspension  Bridge, 
Glasgow. 

Robt.  Innes  Steel,  Warehouseman,  6  Regent 
Park  Terrace. 

Alex.  Ferguson  Steven,  Merchant,  Glasgow. 

Robert  Muir  Steven,  Lithographer,  30 
Montrose  Street. 

Thos.  Watson,  Merchant,  9  Belhaven  Terr. 

1876- 77  David  'fodd,  5  Doune  Terrace. 

William  Smith,  Confectioner,  Helensburgh. 

John  Pollock,  Student,  87  Gallowgate. 

John  Ewing,  Clerk,  18  Albert  Drive,  Cross¬ 
bill. 

Peter  Ferguson,  Brushmaker,  33  Hope 
Street. 

Wm.  MacLean,  jun.,  98  West  George  St. 

David  MacI.ean,  Accountant,  98  West 
George  Street. 

Ebenezer  MacLean,  10  Somerset  Place. 

Peter  Steven,  210  Renfrew  Street. 

Andrew  M’Onie,  Engineer,  1  Scotland  St., 
Tradeston. 

John  Abeicromby  Bruce,  80  Buccleuch  St. 

Angus  Mitchell,  Manufacturer,  42  Miller  St. 

i  James  Marshall,  8  Somerset  Place. 


Membership  Names  of  Members. 

1876- 77  Jas.  Henderson,  Wright  and  Builder, 

Broomhall,  Partick. 

Andrew  Steven,  7  Radnor  Street. 

Cauvin  Spittal  Alston,  Deputy  Governor, 
Glasgow  Prison. 

John  Millar,  Calico  and  Muslin  Printer,  23 
Royal  Exchange  Square. 

Adam  Turnbull,  Chemist  and  Aerated  Water 
Manufacturer,  76  Dundas  Street,  King¬ 
ston. 

Charles  Smith,  Seedsman,  36  Howard  St. 
Alex.  B.  Stewart,  Merchant,  5  Buchanan  St. 

1877-  78  Wm.  Rae,  Wood  Carver,  202  North  Wood- 

side  Road. 

John  Forsyth,  Gas  Surveyor,  5  North¬ 
umberland  Street,  Govanhill. 

David  Sandeman,  Woodlands,  Lenzie. 
James  Grierson,  61a  Robertson  Street. 
Wm.  Harper  Minnoch,  jun.,  6  Woodside 
Crescent. 

William  Murray  Alston,  Civil  Engineer,  24 
Bumbank  Gardens. 

Andrew  Jackson  Kirkpatrick,  10  Woodside 
Place. 

John  Marshall  Easton,  70  James  Watt  St. 
James  Alexander  Duncan,  65  Hamilton 
Drive. 

Robert  Duncan,  65  Hamilton  Drive. 
Robert  Murray,  Grain  Merchant,  58  Buc¬ 
cleuch  Street. 

John  Thomson  Murray,  Gas  Inspector,  12 
Armadale  Street,  Dennistoun. 

Richard  Sandeman,  Blair  Villa,  Lenzie. 
Boswell  Sandeman,  11  John  Street. 

Francis  Sandeman,  11  John  Street. 
William  Campbell  Seton,  Calenderer,  283 
High  Street. 

John  Moffat,  Produce  Agent,  Kinsimba, 
South-west  Coast  of  Africa. 

John  Auchinvole,  113  Ingram  Street. 

John  Wallace,  Bleacher  and  Finisher,  Bum- 
bank,  East. 

Frederick  James  Easton,  81  Buchanan  St. 
Robert  Andrew  Knox,  Park  Quadrant. 
James  Campbell,  of  Tullichewan. 

James  Anderson  Napier,  24  St.  Vincent  PI. 
John  Gourlay,  C.A.,  24  George  Square. 
James  Young,  Greenhead  Cottage,  Udding- 
ston. 

1878- 79  William  Meikle  Gemmell,  367  Duke  Street. 


APPENDIX. 


201 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1878- 79  James  Cunningham,  24  Springfield  Place, 

Leeds. 

John  Brown,  Teacher  of  Music,  214  West 
Regent  Street. 

Daniel  Brown,  jun..  Restaurateur,  214 
West  Regent  Street. 

David  Robertson  Brown,  Restaurateur, 
214  West  Regent  Street. 

Francis  Hamilton  Brown,  Chemist,  214 
West  Regent  Street. 

David  Thomson  Murray,  Clerk,  Caledonian 
Railway  Co.,  3  Tennant  Street. 

Charles  James  MacLean,  Writer,  188  West 
Regent  Street. 

John  Paterson  Pa  ton.  Insurance  Broker, 
Royal  Exchange. 

James  Newlands,  6  Lynedoch  Crescent. 
Joseph  Findlay  Newlands,  6  Lynedoch 
Crescent. 

Alexander  M'Leod,  Grocer,  491  Sauchiehal! 
Street. 

George  Thomson,  Flesher,  Gt.  Hamilton  St. 
Robert  Harvey  Wright,  Tinplate  Worker, 
156  Gallowgate. 

John  Parker,  Accountant,  58  West  Regent 
Street. 

James  Dunn,  20  Park  Circus. 

Robert  Ness,  Schoolmaster,  77  Hill  Street, 
Garnethill. 

Henry  Sinclair,  Manufacturer,  5  Gloucester 
Street. 

Arthur  Burns,  Confectioner,  Kyle  Street. 

1879- 80  James  Connell,  Janitor,  Greenside  Public 

School,  Glasgow. 

George  I-yle,  37  Abercorn  Street. 

Wniiam  Purdon,  Engineer,  48  Harvie  St., 
Bridgeton. 

Peter  Salmon,  Printer,  233  Duke  Street. 
Thomas  Hodge,  Merchant  Draper,  Main 
Street,  Anderston. 

Robert  Hutcheson,  Merchant,  54  Union  St. 
Councillor  John  Filshill,  Confectioner, 
Glasgow. 

John  Scott  Strang,  Accountant,  48  Jane 
Street. 

John  Paterson,  Insurance  and  Property 
Agent,  Shettleston. 

Thomas  Newstead,  59  Main  St.,  Shettleston. 
James  Thomson,  Huddersfield. 

David  Crawford,  jun.,  Dunterlie  Villas, 
Barrhead. 


Year  ot  t  ^ 

Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1879-80  James  Wilson,  Letterpress  Printer,  68  John 
Knox  Street. 

Michael  Wilson,  Bookbinder,  21  Castle  St. 

Alexander  Pollock  Cubic,  Power  Loom 
Tenter,  162  I.ondon  Road. 

Thomas  Jenkins,  Purveyor,  Woodlands, 
Crosshill. 

Robert  Anderson,  Manufacturer,  16  Princes 
Square. 

John  Macfarlan,  Factory  Manager,  2  Jane 
Place,  Darnley  .Street,  Pollokshields. 

1880  81  Alexander  Andrew,  Superintendent  of 
Police,  Glasgow. 

James  Barclay,  S.S.C.,  Edinburgh. 

Robert  Buchanan  Barclay,  Board  of  Super¬ 
vision,  Edinburgh. 

John  Collins,  Merchant,  Bowling,  near 
Glasgow. 

Archibald  M‘ Neill  Allardyce,  Plumber,  20 
Clyde  Terrace. 

Robert  Gilchrist  Paterson,  Manufacturer, 
4  St.  John’s  Terrace,  Hillhead. 

John  Smith,  Merchant,  Glassford  .Street. 

Thomas  Brown,  Merchant,  51  Cochrane  St. 

John  Melville  Lcggatt,  Warehouseman,  2 
St.  James  Street,  Greenhead. 

Robert  Leggat,  Lithographer,  38  Sauchie- 
hall  Street. 

John  Miller,  Joiner,  116  Rottenrow. 

Thomas  Foggo  Marr,  Wholesale  Stationer, 
29  East  Ingram  Street. 

William  Liddell,  Resident  Medical  Officer, 
Govan  Parochial  Board,  Merryflats. 

Lawrence  Rutherford  Inglis,  Warehouse¬ 
man,  19  Gardner  Street. 

James  Scott,  Clerk,  26  Robertson  Street. 

Thomas  Murdoch,  Wholesale  Grocer,  87 
Meadowpark  Street,  Dennistoun. 

Adam  Gemmell,  Stationer,  229  George  St. 

John  Ritchie,  Warehouseman,  29  Ingram 
Street. 

Major  Charles  Atkinson  Logan,  The  Royal 
Scots  Regiment,  10  Belmont  Crescent. 

.‘Vlexander  Ferguson,  Printer,  7  Hopetoun 
Place. 

John  Henderson,  Assistant  Treasurer, 
School  Board,  20  West  Graham  St. 

Robert  Reid,  C.A.,  40  St.  Vincent  Place. 

1881-82  William  Smith,  jun..  Warehouseman,  Tor- 
wood,  Helensburgh. 


202 


APPENDIX 


Year  of 

Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1881- 82  James  Craig,  Surgeon,  Linden  Cottage, 

Partick. 

Arthur  Davidson,  Auctioneer,  43  Argyle  St. 
James  Carrick,  Letterpress  Printer,  62 
Argyle  Street. 

Robert  M'Connell,  Bleacher,  20  Windsor 
Terrace. 

Thomas  M'Connell,  Wright,  20  Windsor 
Terrace. 

William  M'Connell,  20  Windsor  Terrace. 
John  M'Connell,  20  Windsor  Terrace. 
Dav'id  Valentine  Wyllie,  Architect,  74 
Hutchison  Street. 

John  M'Culloch,  Engine  Fitter,  374  Spring- 
burn  Road. 

Angus  Mitchell,  jun..  Power  Loom  Manu¬ 
facturer,  Burnbank  Factory,  Hamilton. 
John  M'Pherson  Mitchell,  Power  Loom 
Manufacturer,  Burnbank  Factory, 
Hamilton. 

William  Clarke,  81  Meadowpark  Street. 

1882- 83  William  Finlayson,  Wholesale  Woollen 

Cloth  Meichant,  15  Hutchison  Street. 
James  Muter,  Diaper,  20  High  Street. 
Robert  M'Dougall,  Accountant,  57  West 
Nile  Street. 

The  Rev.  Archd.  Browning  Drysdale 
Alexander,  Langbank. 

Robert  Douie  Urquhart,  Advocate,  Edin¬ 
burgh. 

William  Gemmell,  Cashier,  143  Main  Street, 
Bridgeton. 

James  Paterson,  Manufacturer,  St.  Marnock 
Street,  Mile-end. 

George  Stewart,  Manufacturer,  113  Ingram 
Street. 

John  Hutcheson  Kerr,  Aberdona,  Clack¬ 
mannanshire. 

Charles  Chalmers  Bryce,  Merchant,  141 
West  George  Street. 

William  Wilson,  Clerk,  26  Taylor  Street. 
Robert  Wilson,  West  India  Merchant, 
Bantaskin,  Falkirk. 

James  Wilson,  jun.,  Bantaskin,  Falkirk. 
Gilbert  Taylor  Wilson,  Bantaskin,  Falkirk. 
Alexander  Taylor  Brown,  Draughtsman. 
John  Hunter  Brown,  51  Cochrane  Street. 
Thomas  Herbert  Brown,  51  Cochrane  St. 

1883- 84  William  Sturgeon,  97  Kenmure  Street, 

Pollokshields. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1883- 84  Robt.  Paterson,  Schoolmaster,  John  Street 

Public  School. 

John  Caldwell,  Flesher,  212  Main  Street, 
Bridgeton. 

Charles  Edward  Clark,  Writer,  West 
George  Street. 

Hugh  Graham,  Commission  Merchant,  198 
New  City  Road. 

James  Sloan,  Merchant,  7  Royal  Bank 
Place. 

Alexander  Rankin  Horn,  Banker,  Clydes¬ 
dale  Bank  Ltd.,  96  Trongate. 

William  Taylor,  Bank  Accountant,  143 
Crownpoint  Road. 

John  Anderson,  Drysalter,  136  Buchanan 
Street. 

Malcolm  Macfarlane,  M.A.,  Teacher,  Gram¬ 
mar  School,  Inveraray. 

George  Sloan,  Shipowner,  140  Hope 
Street. 

James  Cowan  Paterson,  Accountant, 
Glasgow. 

Robert  Smith  Paterson,  13  Holyrood  Cres. 

1884- 85  Adam  White,  Chemical  Merchant,  138  West 

George  Street. 

John  Marshall,  Warehouseman,  114  Hos¬ 
pital  Street. 

James  Gourlay  Maepherson,  Merchant,  62 
Queen  Street. 

George  Gibson,  jun..  Merchant,  77  Queen 
Street. 

Adam  Knox,  Engineer,  47  Crownpoint  Rd., 
Mile-end. 

James  Waddell,  Bank  Agent,  419  Gallow- 
gate. 

James  Alexander,  Yarn  Merchant,  78  Miller 
Street. 

James  Legate,  1  West  Garden  Street, 
Burnbank  Gardens. 

James  Frew,  Portioner,  15  Royal  Terrace, 
Crosshill. 

John  Fulton,  Merchant,  23  Herriet  Street, 
Pollokshields. 

Alexander  Smith  Barr,  Yarn  Salesman,  134 
Westmuir  Street,  Parkhead. 

Robert  Wardrop  Forrest,  Doctor  of  Medi¬ 
cine,  319  Crown  Street. 

Robert  Baird  Galbraith,  Merchant,  35 
Glassford  Street. 

James  Hamilton,  Provision  Merchant,  47 
Argyle  Street. 


APPENDIX. 


203 


Year  of  ...  ,  ,,  , 

Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1884-85  Alexander  Smith  Caldwell,  Butcher,  101 
Kingpark  Place,  Greeuhead  Street. 

George  William  Younger,  Yarn  Merchant, 
166  Ingram  Street. 

Robert  Tannahill  Younger,  Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

John  Stevenson  Stewart,  Warehouseman, 
21  Buchanan  Street. 

Ninian  Bannat3me  Stewart,  Warehouseman, 
21  Buchanan  Street. 

William  Finlayson,  jun.,  67  Roslea  Drive. 

Wilham  Yuill,  19  Meadowpark  Street, 
Dennistoun. 

James  Claude  Gordon  Laird,  28  Cochrane 
Street. 

Charles  Allardyce,  63  Abbotsford  Place. 

Archibald  M'Neil  Allardyce,  63  Abbotsford 
Place. 

William  Alexander  Campbell,  Warehouse¬ 
man,  137  Ingram  Street. 

Matthew  Pearce  Campbell,  Warehouseman, 
137  Ingram  Street. 

James  Mann,  Warehouseman,  21  Glassford 
Street. 

John  Graham  Couper,  Warehouseman,  21 
Glassford  Street. 

Edmond  Baird  Paterson,  Writer,  20  Lyne- 
doch  Street. 

John  Thomson,  Rector,  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Institution,  Langside. 

William  Alexander  Smith,  Yarn  Merchan  ', 
6  South  Hanover  Street. 

David  Walker,  Draper,  65  Candleriggs. 

James  Gardner  Aitken,  42  Miller  Street. 

David  Cooke,  42  Miller  Street. 

Alexander  Allan,  42  Miller  Street. 

John  Scott  Stout,  Shoemaker,  38  Gallow- 
gate. 

Andrew  Graham  Service,  Iron  Merchant, 
27  St.  Vincent  Street. 

Robert  Forrester  Graham,  Warehouseman, 
123  Argyle  Street. 

George  Halliday,  Warehouseman,  123 
Argyle  Street. 

Thomas  Mills  Wilson,  Merchant,  42  Glass¬ 
ford  Street. 

Thomas  Macfarlane,  Warehouseman,  39 
Miller  Street. 

William  John  Tillie,  Warehouseman,  39 
Miller  Street. 

Andrew  Arthur,  Warehouseman,  78  Queen 
Street. 


Membership.  Barnes  of  Members. 

1884-85  Tames  Arthur,  Warehouseman,  78  Queen 
Street. 

Thomas  Glen  Arthur,  Warehouseman,  78 
Queen  Street. 

Matthew  Arthur,  Warehouseman,  78  Queen 
Street. 

William  Ogilvie,  Warehouseman,  78  Queen 
Street. 

John  Robert  Kay,  Warehouseman,  78 
Queen  Street. 

Robert  Kedie,  Warehouseman,  21  Buch¬ 
anan  Street. 

James  Robert  Sloan,  Manufacturer,  7 
Royal  Bank  Place. 

Robert  Gilchrist  Finlay,  jun., Manufacturer, 
12  South  Frederick  Street. 

Thomas  O’May,  Officer  of  the  Incorporation 
of  Weavers,  2  St.  Andrew  Square. 

Robert  Eason,  Stationer’s  Assistant,  674 
Gallowgate. 

1885  86  Henry  Bowie  Fyfe,  Writer,  133  St.  Vincent 
Street. 

William  Elder  Allan,  Teacher,  130  South 
Portland  Street. 

Robert  M'Nish,  Tea  Merchant,  68  York  St. 

James  Laughland,  Warehouseman,  67 
Mitchell  Street. 

Alexander  Hannah,  Warehouseman,  3 
South  Hanover  Street. 

John  Robertson,  Bleacher  and  Finisher, 
Rutherglen. 

John  Service,  Warehouseman,  67  Mitchell 
Street. 

Robert  George  Munsie,  Yarn  Salesman,  10 
Berkeley  Terrace. 

Hugh  Brown,  Merchant,  9  Exchange  Sq. 

Robert  Megget  Knox,  Engineer,  47  Crown- 
point  Road,  Mile-end. 

John  Sinclair  Knox,  10  Clayton  Terrace, 
Dennistoun. 

George  Caldwell,  Flesher,  101  Greenhead 
Street. 

Thomas  Alexander  Paul,  Merchant,  112 
Wellington  Street. 

Robert  Telford,  Commercial  Traveller,  7 
Union  Place,  Farme,  Rutherglen. 

William  Graham  Young,  Physician,  22 
Monteith  Row. 

1886-87  William  Scouller  Macalister,  383  Duke 
Street. 


204 


APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1886- 87  David  Brown,  jun.,  House  Factor,  69  Clyde 

Street,  Calton. 

William  Alexander  Caskie,  M.D.,  Largs. 
Robert  Wyllie,  Biscuit  Manufacturer,  354 
Paisley  Road. 

Thomas  Mason,  21  Clyde  Place.  . 

John  Dawson,  at  George  Younger  &  Co., 
166  Ingram  Street. 

Ebenezer  James  Mozart  Allan,  Music  Pub¬ 
lisher,  130  South  Portland  Street. 
James  Buchanan  Muir,  62  Waddell  Street. 
Ebenezer  Brown  Fleming,  Commission 
Merchant,  185  West  George  Street. 
Alexander  White  Tod,  Manufacturer,  76 
Wilson  Street. 

James  Taylor  Drysdale,  Drysalter,  124 
Renfield  Street. 

1887- 88  William  Brown  Watson,  Manufacturer, 

Bernard  Street  Mills,  Glasgow. 

Walter  M'Lintock,  jun.,  112  Parson  Street. 
William  Stewart  Ramsay,  Manufacturer, 
134  Queen  Street. 

William  Buchanan,  67  Alexandra  Parade. 
James  Mitchell  Watson,  Manufacturer, 
Bernard  Street  Mills,  Glasgow. 

William  Morison  Paterson,  Manufacturer, 
St.  Marnock  Street. 

Archibald  Speirs,  House  Factor,  74  Canning 
Street. 

James  M'Dougall,  88  Warroch  Street, 
Anderston. 

James  Burns  Kidston,  jun..  Writer,  50 
West  Regent  Street. 

1888- 89  John  Buchanan,  6  Norfolk  Street. 

James  Buchanan,  22  Robertson  Street. 
Andrew  Brock,  43  Moir  Street. 

David  Dreghorn,  Kinning  Park. 

Benjamin  Chesney,  22  Caledonia  Road. 
James  Peebles,  13  Wellpark  Street. 

William  Adam,  5  Main  Street,  Anderston. 
John  Whitehead  Wilson  Drysdale,  183 
Fordncuk  Street. 

Alexander  Kyd,  13  Oswald  Street. 

William  M' Queen,  Weaver,  52  Weaver  St. 

1889- 90  William  Hadyn  Allan,  111  New  City  Road. 

William  Craighead,  51  Whitevale  Street. 
William  Kidston,  Writer,  50  West  Regent 
Street. 

Archibald  M'Kinnon,  139  Grcenhead  St. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1889-90  Thomas  Swan,  32  Polmadie  Road. 

Alexander  Nisbet  Paterson,  4  St.  John’s 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

James  Blakeston  Stewart,  33  Lacrosse 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

William  Hopper  Stewart,  33  Lacrosse 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

John  Lauder  Stewart,  33  Lacrosse  Terrace, 
Hillhead. 

James  Jamieson,  7  Fergus  Place,  Kirkcaldy. 

William  Allan,  117  Golfhill  Terrace,  Dennis- 
toun. 

William  Fleming,  138  Duke  Street. 

1890  91  John  M'Skimming,  4  Bute  Mansions,  Hill¬ 
head. 

Thomas  James  Menzies,StranraerAcademy, 
Stranraer. 

Thos.  Calder  M'Leod,  59  St.  Vincent  Street. 

Robert  Dougall  M’Ewan,  22  Montrose  St. 

1891-92  Andrew  Gibb,  30  South  Street,  Greenwich. 

John  Ernest  Kerr,  Aberdona,  Clackmannan¬ 
shire. 

John  Logan  M’Culloch,  15  Castle  Street. 

James  M'Kechnie,  52  James  Orr  Street. 

Hugh  James  Craig.  1  Hamilton  Terrace, 
East,  Partick. 

John  Boyd  Wallace,  66  Huskisson  Street, 
Liverpool. 

Alexander  Waddell,  Eastbourne  Place, 
Shawlands. 

John  Waddell,  Invereck,  Kilmacolm. 

Andrew  Miller  Wilson,  7  Park  Terr.,  Govan. 

William  Russell,  3  Park  Terrace,  Langside. 

Thomas  Orr,  Maxwell  Street. 

1892  -93  George  Sutherland,  80  Grant  Street. 

John  Allan  M’Lean,  Havanna,  Cuba. 

James  Morrice,  10  Cecil  Street,  Manchester. 

William  Cecil  Easton,  Redholm,  Helens¬ 
burgh. 

Duncan  Turner  Easton,  Redholm,  Helens¬ 
burgh. 

James  Hamilton,  19  Wilson  Strefet. 

Alexander  Clark,  1  Newhall  Terrace, 
Bridgeton. 

Alexander  Buchanan,  51  M'Aslin  Street. 

William  Macfie,  26  Bishop  Street,  Rothesay. 

James  Place,  21  Seytoun  Avenue,  Langside. 

David  Logan,  6  Garnet  Terrace,  Mount 
Florida. 


APPENDIX. 


205 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1892- 93  Alexander  Norrie  Woodrow,  75  Glassford 

Street. 

John  Gray,  3  West  Scotland  Street. 

Alexander  Gartshore,  43  Virginia  Street. 

William  Swan,  32  Polmadie  Road. 

1893- 94  David  Crosby  Wright,  155  Reidvale  Street. 

William  Yuille  Orr,  Maxwell  Street. 

John  Fraser  Orr,  M.D.,  1  Berlin  Terrace, 
Pollokshields. 

Samuel  Leckie,  35  North  St.  Mungo  Street. 

And.  Docherty,  7  Firpark  Terrace. 

Francis  Gilchrist  Cuzen,  286  London  Road. 

Wm.  Arthur  Liddell,  13  Argyle  Place, 
Partick. 

David  Dunn,  Merchant,  64  Robertson  St. 

William  Miller  Findlay,  125  Buchanan  St. 

Janies  Baillie,  26  Montague  Street. 

John  Buchanan,  10  Steven  Street. 

William  Hewat,  22  Queen  Mary  Avenue, 
Crosshill. 

John  M'Culloch,  421  Gallowgate. 

1894- 95  Wm.  Houston,  125  Buchanan  Street. 

Wm.  Mitchell,  Hazelwood,  Langside. 

John  Andrew  Downie,  57  Ingram  Street. 

David  Sinclair  Brown,  46  Main  Street, 
Bridgeton. 

Jas.  Allan,  13  John  Street. 

James  Johnston  Fisken,  78  Queen  Street. 

Archd.  Love  Holmes,  13  John  Street. 

George  Galloway  Pomphrey,  137  Ingram 
Street. 

Edwin  Connell  Wilson,  Bantaskin,  Falkirk. 

Robert  Alexander  Reid,  125  Buchanan  St. 

John  Bogle  Smith,  134  Ingram  Street. 

Alex.  Davie  Smith,  134  Ingram  Street. 

William  Barr,  88  Gt.  Clyde  Street. 

Hugh  Watson,  jun.,  93  Annfield  Street. 

William  Gardiner,  10  St.  James’s  Terrace, 
Hillhead. 

Jas.  Robertson,  jun..  Writer,  35  St.  Vincent 
Crescent. 

Geo.  Stevenson  M'Nish,  1  Colebrooke  Place, 
Hillhead. 

John  Stevenson  M'Nish,  1  Colebrooke 
Place,  Hillhead. 

David  Jamieson  Graham,  Glen  Ter.  Dis¬ 
tillery,  Langholm. 

Archd.  Cameron  Wallace,  183  West  George 
Street. 

And.  Davie  Manson,  104  Hydepark  Street. 


Mem'bLship.  Names  of  Members. 

1894- 95  Joseph  Paton  Maclay,  123  Hope  Street. 

Wm.  Paton  Maclay,  104  Hydepark  Street. 

Robert  Downie,  jun.,  Ill  Finlay  Drive, 
Dennistoun. 

John  Buchanan  Rae,  818  New  City  Road. 

Colin  Campbell,  123  Hospital  Street. 

John  Gemmell,  15  Newhall  Terrace,  Green- 
head. 

Henry  Drysdale  Winning,  10  Campside 
Crescent,  I.angside. 

Arthur  Mayer  Macintyre,  8  Lindsay  Terr., 
Partick. 

James  Marshall  Downie,  Woodside,  Lenzie. 

James  Speirs  Cherry,  Merrylee  Villa, 
Shawlands. 

William  Cherry,  Merrylee  Villa,  Shawlands. 

Gavin  Speirs  Cherry,  Merrylee  Villa, 
Shawlands. 

James  Mitchell  Alexander,  5  Doune  Terr., 
Kelvinside. 

David  Duff  Alexander,  5  Doune  Terrace, 
Kelvinside. 

William  M'Dougall,  83  South  Portland  St. 

John  Dalrymple  Johnston,  6  Fitzroy  Place, 
Sauchiehall  Street. 

Wm.  Johnston,  6  Fitzroy  Place,  Sauchie¬ 
hall  Street. 

William  Maclay,  93  Hope  Street. 

William  Stuart  Service,  Writer,  Glasgow. 

Walter  Darling  Noble,  21  Glassford  Street. 

1895- 96  John  George  Augustus  Baillie,  Writer,  76 

Albert  Drive,  Crosshill. 

John  Hewat,  22  Queen  Mary  Avenue, 
Crosshill. 

William  Hewat,  22  Queen  Mary  Avenue, 
Crosshill. 

Henry  Alston  Hewat,  22  Queen  Mary 
Avenue,  Crosshill. 

James  Alexander  Millen,  47  Commerce  St. 

Andrew  Robertson,  Trearne  Cottage.  Well- 
shothill,  Cambuslang. 

Robert  Fairlie  Young,  Dunkeld,  Buchanan 
Drive,  Cambuslang. 

John  Reid,  61  Henderson  Street. 

Jas.  Booth,  21  Granville  Street,  St.  George’s 
Road. 

Hugh  Brown,  jun.,  9  Clairmont  Gardens. 

Laurence  Robertson  Brown,  9  Clairmont 
Gardens. 

William  Desbrasey  Woodbum,  22  Eldon 
Street,  Greenock. 


206 


APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1895- 96  George  Smith,  jun.,  75  Bothwell  Street. 

Robert  Workman  Smith,  3  Clairmont  Terr. 

1896- 97  David  Wright  M'Culloch,  66  Evelyn  Street, 

Dennistoun. 

Harry  Lumsden,  Writer,  207  Ingram  St. 
Duncan  T.  Kirkpatrick,  5  Park  Terrace. 
Thomas  A.  Kirkpatrick,  5  Park  Terrace. 
James  Docherty,  Coats  Ltd.,  Paisley. 

Peter  M'Auslin  Garrick,  13  Battlefield 
Gardens,  Langside. 

Allan  MacDougall,  149  West  George  Street. 
William  Gray,  44  Maxwell  Drive. 

Stanley  Pearson  Crossland,  Glenville, 
Gledholt,  Huddersfield. 

John  Caldwell,  jun.,  228  Meadowpark  St. 
James  Milne,  15  Castle  Street. 

Hugh  Austin  Stirling,  Solicitor,  133  St. 
Vincent  Street. 

Nicol  Paton  Brown,  8  Doune  Gardens. 

1897- 98  Geo.  Ferrier  Anderson  MacNaughton,  The 

Manse,  Carsphaim,  Kirkcudbright¬ 
shire. 

Robt.  Mathers  Mann,  21  Glassford  Street. 
John  Lyle,  10  Fordneuk  Street. 

Henry  Alexander  Reid,  108  West  George 
Street. 

Hubert  Victor  Kirkpatrick,  5  Park  Terrace. 
Charles  L.  Wollheim,  48  West  Regent  St. 

J  ohn  M.  Steven,  115  Stirling  Road. 

William  D.  Steven,  Superintendent,  India 
General  Steam  Navigation  Co.,  Cal¬ 
cutta. 

Peter  A.  Steven,  2  Hampton  Court  Terrace. 
William  Boyd,  jun.,  C.A.,  112  Bath  Street. 
John  Hunter,  5  Langside  Terr.,  Langside. 

1898- 99  Daniel  Wright,  11  Bannatyne  Avenue. 

James  Thomson  Mitchell,  137  Ingram  St. 
John  Stevenson  Downie,  Public  School, 
Newton  Mearns. 

Thomas  Brown,  8  Pentland  Place. 

Thomas  Macnair,  27  St.  Vincent  Place. 
Allan  Taylor,  143  Crownpoint  Road. 

James  Wylie  Smith,  49  Jamaica  Street. 
Wm.  Peebles,  5  Dunchattan  Street. 

Wm.  R.  Danskin,  81  Pollok  Street. 

John  S.  Houston,  125  Buchanan  Street. 
James  M'Allister,  541  Duke  Street. 

Charles  Chalmers  Bryce,  223  West  George 
Street. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1898- 99  Francis  Legate,  1  Queensborough  Drive, 

Hyndland. 

Alex.  Buchanan  Selkirk  Legate,  1  Queens¬ 
borough  Drive,  Hyndland. 

John  M'Kenzie,  103  Burnside  Street. 

Jas.  F.  Bannerman,  108  West  George  St. 
Thomas  Scott,  153  Queen  Street. 

1899-  Jas.  A.  Reid,  Writer,  172  St.  Vincent  St. 
1900  William  Brodie,  Writer,  77  St.  Vincent 

Street. 

James  MacDougall,  27  Caird  Drive,  Partick. 
Frederick  L.  MacLeod,  59  St.  Vincent 
Street. 

William  Anderson,  Lynorne,  Blairgowrie. 
John  Barr,  17  Battlefield  Gardens,  Lang¬ 
side. 

Thomas  Kirkpatrick  Monro,  10  Clairmont 
Gardens. 

Conal  A.  Wilkie,  72  Tobago  Street. 

William  Frame,  5  Walmer  Terrace. 

Herbert  F.  Stockdale,  Technical  College. 
Alexander  Kidd,  239  Ingram  Street. 

John  Eadie,  69  Eglinton  Street. 

Alexander  Laird,  jun.,  113  King’s  Park 
Place,  Greenhead. 

1900- 01  David  Marshall,  22  Montrose  Street. 

Wm.  Albert  Harvey,  16  Westbourne  Gds. 
George  Thomson  Harvey,  16  Westbourne 
Gardens. 

Wilson  Harvey,  16  Westbourne  Gardens. 
Thomas  Harvey,  16  Westbourne  Gardens. 
James  Thomson  Caldwell,  Bellafield  House, 
Uddingston. 

Robert  Hamilton,  Lochend,  Glengamock. 
James  Howie  Young,  92  Union  Street. 
Reginald  Mollison  Young,  Farmer,  Crian- 
larich. 

Harry  Adamson  Young,  24  Belhaven  Terr. 
John  Erskine  Young,  jun.,  Lieut.  R.S.F. , 
24  Belhaven  Terrace. 

John  Robson  Young,  53  Mill  St.,  Bridgeton. 
Geo.  Robson  Young,  8  Clairmont  Terrace. 
Robert  Frew  Young,  8  Clairmont  Terrace. 
James  E.  Houston,  1  Seytoun  Avenue, 
Langside. 

John  M'Kenzie,  jun.,  103  Burnside  Street. 
Thos.  Watson  Macpherson,  62  Queen  St. 
John  George  Gunn  Wright,  10  New  Bur¬ 
lington  Street,  London. 

John  Aiken  Danskin,  8  Ardgowan  Street. 


APPENDIX. 


•207 


°u-  Names  of  Members. 

Membership. 

1901- 02  Jas.  Gourlav,  11  Crown  Gardens,  Dowan- 

hill. 

John  Wm.  Gourlay,  C.A.,  180  Hope  Street. 

A.  Rodger  Reid,  1  Derby  Crescent,  Kelvin- 
side,  N. 

Robert  A.  M.  Reid,  1  Derby  Crescent, 
Kelvinside,  N. 

R.  M.  Maclay,  C.A.,  209  West  George  St. 

William  MacLean,  3  Grosvenor  Crescent, 
Kelvinside. 

John  Fraser,  31  West  Street,  Calton. 

Archibald  Robertson,  51  James  Street, 
Calton. 

Hugh  Reid,  13  Victoria  Buildings,  Shettle- 
ston. 

John  M'Lea  Wilkinson,  Liberal  Club, 
Glasgow. 

Robertson  Buchanan  Stewart,  146  Argyle 
Street. 

1902- 03  Gilbert  Innes,  21  Glassford  Street. 

James  Filshill,  420  Gallowgate. 

Jas.  C.  Webster,  103  West  George  Street. 

David  Wilson,  D.L.,  D.Sc.,  of  Carbeth, 
Killearn. 

Lord  Inverclyde,  Castle  Wemyss,  Wemyss 
Bay. 

Andrew  Walker,  14  Montrose  Street. 

James  C.  Campbell,  9  Lynedoch  Crescent. 

John  Graham  Dow,  207  Ingram  Street. 

William  Taylor,  16  St.  Vincent  Place. 

W.  M.  Dickson,  Glenroy  House,  Princes 
Town,  Trinidad. 

H.  Taylor  Brown,  111  French  Street. 

John  Reid,  Hydepark  Locomotive  Works, 
Springburn. 

Arthur  Kay,  78  Queen  Street. 

Herbert  Ogilvie,  78  Queen  Street. 

David  Couper,  Bridgend  Mills,  Dairy. 

Thos.  Couper,  21  Glassford  Street. 

William  Hammond  Couper,  21  Glassford 
Street. 

Jno.  Graham  Couper,  jun.,  C.A.,  The 
Hollies,  Langbank. 

Jas.  Hammond  Couper,  21  Glassford  Street. 

Robert  Suttie,  10  Princes  Square,  Buch¬ 
anan  Street. 

Herbert  Dunn,  20  Park  Circus. 

Bannat5me  Dunn,  20  Park  Circus. 

Angus  Rew,  56  Petershill  Road. 

David  Crabb,  36  North  Frederick  Street. 

Thomas  Mason,  jun.,  Polmadie. 


Mem'bersLp.  Barnes  of  Members. 

1902- 03  Robert  Wylie  Mason,  Polmadie. 

Andw.  S.  Strang,  201  Greenhead  Street. 

Hugh  Yuill,  D.  &  J.  Anderson’s,  Bridgeton. 

William  Ritchie,  77  Queen  Street. 

Stewart  Porteous  Auchinvole,  113  Virginia 
Place. 

William  Hislop  Manson,  M.A.,  Avenue 
Villa,  Mansionhouse  Roatl,  Langside. 

James  Muir  Watson,  13  Bellgrove  Street. 

Malcolm  W.  Lindsay,  2  West  Regent  St. 

Alex.  Wilson  Smart,  jun.,  C.-A.,  98  High 
Street,  Paisley. 

Lewis  A.  Smart,  Birkbeck  Bank  Chambers, 
Holborn,  London,  E.C. 

John  M'Clure  Brodie,  B.L.,  23  Belhaven 
Terrace,  Kelvinside. 

Thomson  Brodie,  C..4.,  23  Belhaven  Terrace, 
Kelvinside. 

Archd.  Campbell  Holms  MacLean,  Lieut. 
The  Royal  Scots,  Aldershot. 

H.  J.  Thomson,  147  IBath  Street. 

Walter  Wilfrid  Blackie,  B.Sc.,  17  Stanhope 
Street. 

John  Edward  Lyle,  10  Eordneuk  Street. 

Walter  Muir  Watson,  Airedale  Shed, 
Silsden,  York. 

James  Wilson,  ter.,  Mayfield,  Falkirk. 

John  Ross  Wilson,  Mayfield,  Falkirk. 

Tom  Taylor  Wilson,  Mayfield,  Falkirk. 

Robert  Wilson,  jun.,  Mayfield,  Falkirk. 

Cecil  Guy  Wilson,  IVIayfield,  Falkirk. 

George  H.  M'Kay,  40  Dumbarton  Road. 

Henry  A.  Kidd,  571  Sauchiehall  Street. 

1903- 04  James  Dunn  Dunn,  20  Park  Circus. 

Thomas  Walker  MTntyre,  21  Bothwell  St. 

John  Wishart,  39  St.  Vincent  Place. 

James  Andrew,  Writer,  160  West  George 
Street. 

Arthur  Yuill,  93  Candleriggs. 

Thomas  Forrest,  1  Moray  Place. 

William  Forrest,  114  Dixon  Avenue,  Cross¬ 
hill. 

James  Dick  Forrest,  L.D.S.,  114  Dixon 
Avenue,  Crosshill. 

Robert  Wardrop  Forrest,  M.B.  &  C.M.,  1 14 
Dixon  Avenue,  Crosshill. 

Robert  Oswald  Blyth,  1  Montgomerie 
Quadrant. 

Robert  Johnston  Galbraith,  4  West  Regent 
Street. 

Charles  Galbraith,  35  Glassford  Street. 


208 


APPENDIX. 


Membership.  Members.  ! 

1903- 04  Chas.  Alexander  Mackinlay,  28  Bobbie’s  j 

Loan. 

George  Francis  Newlands,  Writer,  135  St. 
Vincent  Street. 

Alexander  Fyfe,  M.A.,  16  Montgomerie 
Quadrant. 

Henry  Halcro  Fyfe,  198  West  George  St. 
John  Dunn,  Baker,  29  Bellgrove  Street. 
Robert  Dick,  19  Waterloo  Street. 

Archd.  Montgomerie  Craig,  7  Robertson 
Lane. 

Rev.  Win.  Muir,  B.D.,  St.  Andrew’s  LT.F.  j 
Manse,  Blairgowrie.  j 

Cecil  Ogilvie,  78  Queen  Street. 

James  H.  Parker,  C.A.,  89  West  Regent  St. 
John  Turner,  27  King  Street,  Liverpool. 
Geo.  Lambie  Reid,  Windsor  Place,  Shettle- 
ston. 

Hugh  Young  Reid,  13  Victoria  Buildings, 
Shettleston. 

Adair  Campbell,  137  Ingram  Street. 

Robert  Glassford  Alexander,  1 1  Belmont 
Crescent. 

J.  Cecil  Arthur,  Fullarton,  Troon. 

Andrew  J.  Guthrie,  29  West  George  Street. 
William  Geo.  Black,  Writer,  88  West 
Regent  Street. 

John  Knox,  jun.,  Silsden,  York. 

William  Knox,  Silsden,  York. 

Alexander  Macindoe,  104  West  George  St. 
Joseph  Gunn  Mowat,  50  Wellington  Street. 
James  Gemmell  Bissett,  Netherpark,  Largs. 

1904- 05  Robert  Headrick,  21  Bothwell  Street. 

Andrew  Docherty,  8  Miller  Street. 

James  Walker  Downie,  4  Woodside  Cres. 
Andrew  Marshall  Downie,  4  Strathmore 
Gardens,  Hillhead. 

Robert  Cleland  Gourlay,  Caledonia  Engine 
Works,  Paisley. 

Robert  James  Gourlay,  Bank  of  Scotland, 
St.  Vincent  Place. 

William  Holt  Woodburn,  17  Carlton  Place,  j 
Arthur  Blackburn  Craig,  41  St.  Vincent  PI.  j 
Rev.  William  Carmichael,  U.F.  Churcli,  j 
Crossknowe,  Torrance.  ! 

John  Comrie  Maclay,  5  Waterloo  Street.  | 
Kenneth  Maclay,  21  St.  Vincent  Place.  i 

Rev.  Edward  T.  S.  Reid,  St.  Cuthbert’s  j 
Church,  Hawick. 

James  Shaw,  101  St.  Vincent  Street. 

David  Simson  Morton,  309  Bobbie’s  Loan. 


Membership.  Names  of  Members. 

1904- 05  David  Cooke,  631  Alexandra  Parade. 

James  Cook,  93  Hutcheson  Street. 

George  Buchanan  Marshall,  703  Cathcart 
Road. 

Robert  Downie,  jun..  Ill  Finlay  Drive, 
Dennistoun. 

John  P.  Kinghorn,  105  West  George  Street. 

David  Rennie  Macalister,  106  Cowcaddens 
Street. 

David  Wright,  57  Reidvale  Street. 

James  Russell,  32  Fortis  Green  Road,  East 
Finchley,  London. 

Frederick  Taylor,  49  Jamaica  Street. 

Thomas  Cunningham  Todd,  30  Gordon 
Street. 

Arthur  Herbert  Graham,  107  Buchanan 
Street. 

John  Henry  Weston,  17  West  Register  St., 
Edinburgh. 

John  Connell,  5  West  Scotland  Street. 

William  Eglinton  Russell,  32  Fortis  Green 
Road,  East  Finchley,  London. 

John  Russell,  Woodend,  Lethington 
Avenue,  Langside. 

John  Fleming,  138  Duke  Street. 

Thomas  Tod,  26  Queen  Street. 

Frederick  William  Hirst,  Mountjoy  Road, 
Huddersfield. 

John  Taylor,  40  Queen  Square,  Strath- 
bungo. 

James  Manuel  Webster,  103  West  George 
Street. 

■Vrthur  Andrew  Maclay,  Thornwood,  Lang¬ 
side. 

David  Baird,  139  Greenhead  Terrace. 

Harry  Baird,  Mossbank,  Gallowflat, 
Rutherglen. 

George  Paterson,  376  St.  Vincent  Street. 

Walter  Wardlaw  Fyfe,  16  Montgomerie 
Quadrant,  Kelvinside. 

John  Erskine  Fyfe,  16  Montgomerie 
Quadrant  Kelvinside. 

Alexander  S.  T.  Gray,  3  Maxwell  Terrace, 
Pollokshields. 

D.  IMacfarlane  Macleod,  47  Mornington 
Road,  Bow,  London,  E. 

Donald  Fraser  Macnair,  41  St.  Vincent  PI. 

James  Archibald  Holmes,  13  John  Street. 

1905- 06  James  Watson  M'Ewan,  9  Eglinton  Driv-e. 

James  M'Kenzie  Copland,  111  French  St., 
Bridgeton. 


APPENDIX. 


209 


MemSreWp.  Members. 

1905- 06  David  Whitelaw  Kidston,  C.A.,  102  Hope 

Street. 

John  Alexander  Christie,  Union  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Ingram  Street. 

Andrew  Thomson  Reid,  Hydepark  Loco¬ 
motive  Works. 

William  Ferguson,  40  West  Nile  Street. 
Thos.  Binnie,  jun.,  207  Hope  Street. 
Thomas  Adam,  27  Union  Street. 

Andrew  Baird,  93  Hutcheson  Street. 

James  Lindsay,  166  Gt.  Hamilton  Street. 
Edward  Alston,  23  Sandyford  Place. 
Charles  Frederick  Alston,  74  East  Twelfth 
Street,  Oakland,  California. 

James  M‘ Skimming,  6  Hamilton  Drive, 
Pollokshields. 

Charles  Scott  M'Skimming,  6  Hamilton 
Drive,  Pollokshields. 

William  Kilpatrick  Hutton,  M.D.,  11  Beau¬ 
mont  Gate,  Dowanhill. 

James  Johnston,  405  Cathcart  Road. 
Alexander  Burrell,  114  John  Street. 

Charles  Andrew  Hislop,  The  Croft,  Brook¬ 
field,  Johnstone. 

Thomas  Greenlees,  jun.,  22  IMontrose  St. 

1906- 07  Andrew  Paterson  Hamilton,  Solicitor,  100 

West  Regent  Street. 

John  Hamilton,  1  North  Park  Terrace. 
William  Miller,  186  Trongate. 

John  Baird  Walker,  24  George  Square. 
William  Alexander  Burnet,  24  George  Sq. 
John  George  Stevenson,  Solicitor,  147  St. 
Vincent  Street. 

Robert  Stewart  IM'Nicol,  7  Royal  Bank  PI. 
John  Dawson,  c/oWm.  Graham,  jun.,  &  Co., 
7  Rua  da  Princeza,  Lisbon. 

Wilson  Da,wson,  22  Montrose  Street. 

Thos.  Wyllie,  31  Clifford  Street,  Ibrox. 
Robert  Wyllie,  jun.,  29  West  George  Street. 
Alexander  Govan,  Argyll  Motors  Ltd., 
Alexandria. 

Thomas  Laurie  Hendry,  34  West  George  St. 
Daniel  Rippon  Kilpatrick,  7  Royal  Bank  PI. 
Robert  Shaw  Paterson,  c/o  Messrs.  Leisler, 
Bock  &  Co.,  55  West  Regent  Street. 
James  Adam,  51  Buchanan  Street. 

William  Allan  Lambie,  111  French  Street, 
Bridgeton. 

James  Pollock  Morton,  Renfield  Weaving 
Factory,  Pollokshaws. 

Cauvin  Spittal  Alston,  190  West  George  St. 


,,  *  sar  or  Names  of  Members. 

Membership. 

1906- 07  William  Bogle  Alston,  Eastvale  Place, 

Kelvinhaugh  Street. 

Chas.  Edward  Hamilton,  1  North  Park 
Terrace. 

1907- 08  Jas.  Golder  Macfarlane,  39  Miller  Street. 

John  Fraser  Orr,  Writer,  180  West  Regent 
Street. 

John  Graham,  29  Somerville  Drive,  Mount 
Florida. 

Robert  Baxter,  37  St.  Monance  Street, 
Springburn. 

James  Carruthers,  5  Balmano  Street. 
Alexander  M'Kenzie,  49  Cadogan  Street. 
Robert  Murray,  21  Park  Street,  Kinning 
Park. 

Charles  Main  Murray,  151  Whitehill  Street, 
Dennistoun. 

John  Thomson  Murray,  jun.,  151  Whitehill 
Street,  Dennistoun. 

Robert  Wright,  87  Meadowpark  Street. 
Nathaniel  Martin  Donaldson,  53  Cochrane 
Street. 

Charles  Steele,  164  Howard  Street. 
Alexander  Leckie,  Glengarnock  Iron  and 
Steel  Co..  Glengarnock. 

William  Elphinstone  Fleming,  164  Spring- 
field  Road. 

Gilbert  James  Lines,  16  Kirklee  Road. 
Kenneth  Ashby  Brown,  111  French  Street, 
Bridgeton. 

Malcolm  M'Caul  Brodie,  1 1 1  William  Street, 
Melbourne,  Australia. 

Richard  Edmiston,  jun.,  7  West  Nile  Street. 

1908- 09  Robert  Stewart  M'Nicol,  Shoppel,  Aargau, 

Switzerland. 

William  Arthur  Walker,  142  St.  Vincent 
Street. 

Allan  Maxwell  Wilson,  12  Waterloo  Street. 
John  Mollet  Clavering,  41  St.  Vincent  Place. 
James  Stcdman  Dixon,  LL.D.,  127  St. 
Vincent  Street. 

Leslie  Christian  Kilpatrick,  6  North  Park 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

Daniel  Ross  Kilpatrick,  M.D.,  6  North  Park 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

Fraser  Buchanan  Kilpatrick,  6  North  Park 
Terrace,  Hillhead. 

James  Smith,  155  George  Street. 

Rev.  James  Weatherhead,  B.D.,  St.  Paul’s 
United  Free  Church,  Dundee. 


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APPENDIX. 


Mem^b^ship.  Members. 

1908-09  Stephen  Roberton,  jun.,  105  John  Street. 

Daniel  Henderson  Lusk  Young,  William 
Street,  Greenhead. 

Edward  M‘ Crone,  82  Mitchell  Street. 

William  Robertson,  45  West  Nile  Street. 

James  Gardner  Millar,  Sheriff  of  Lanark¬ 
shire,  5  Lorraine  Gardens. 

Andrew  Hislop  Pettigrew,  146  Argyle 
Street. 

Robert  Hetherington,  19  St.  Vincent  Place. 

James  Fulton,  29/31  Hanover  Street. 

Angus  Mitchell  Fulton,  29/31  Hanover 
Street. 

Charles  Fulton,  142  St.  Vincent  Street. 

James  Sutherland,  300  Swanston  Street. 

Robert  Reid  Penman,  64  Strathclyde  Street. 

Adriaan  Archibald  Eekhout,  82  Gordon 
Street. 

George  Calder  M'Leod,  The  Laurels,  Albert 
Drive,  Pollokshields. 

Rev.  Thomas  Brown,  The  Manse, 
197  Gold  Street,  Cliftonhill,  Mel¬ 
bourne,  Australia. 

Henry  Morgan,  25  St.  Vincent  Place. 

James  Wilson  Manson,  Avenue  Villa, 
Mansionhouse  Road,  Langside. 

Robert  Clarke,  81  St.  Vincent  Place, 

William  Stobo  Clarke,  81  St.  Vincent  Place. 

John  Henderson,  87  St.  George’s  Road. 

James  Young,  400  Springfield  Road, 
Bridgeton. 

Alexander  Miller,  jun.,  4  West  Regent 
Street. 

William  Anderson,  12  Princes  Square. 

Robert  MacLellan,  33  Bothwell  Street. 

George  Selden  Simpson,  129  St.  Vincent 
Street. 

1910-11  John  Park  Douglas,  171  Boden  Street. 

James  Somerville  Crawford,  16  Newton 
Street,  Manchester. 

John  Robb,  13  Shuttle  Street. 

Samuel  Peter  Cochrane,  170  Ingram  Street. 

Sir  Daniel  Macaulay  Stevenson,  12  Water¬ 
loo  Street. 

William  Adam,  3  George  Street,  Whiteinch. 

James  Chapman  Murray,  128  Bothwell  St. 

John  Hislop  Pettigrew,  191  Sauchiehall 
Street. 

Edwin  Sutherland,  Town-Clerk’s  Office, 
Glasgow. 

David  Steele  Allan,  41  St.  Vincent  Place. 


Names  of  Members. 

Membership. 

1910- 11  Edward  Hamilton  Green,  Copland  Villa, 

Kelvinside  Gardens. 

Joseph  M'Clenahan  Kennedy,  Barrowfield 
Potteries,  Bridgeton. 

William  Scott  M'Farlane,  1 18  Queen  Street. 
Archibald  Lennox  Speirs,  Ford,  Somerset. 
George  Patrick  Speirs,  3  Oakley  Terrace, 
Dennistoun. 

1911- 12  Samuel  Hoey,  347  Springburn  Road. 

Neil  Campbell  Mitchell,  1 1  West  Nile  Street. 
Harry  Lethbridge  Abell,  20  Jamaica  Street. 
Robert  Muir  Steven,  3  Granville  Gardens, 
N  ewcastle-on-T  yne. 

Samuel  Hoey,  jun.,  347  Springburn  Road. 
John  Baird,  93  Hutcheson  Street. 

William  Lindsay  Lamb,  25  Kelvinside 
Terrace,  W. 

William  Wright,  87  Meadowpark  Street. 

1912- 13  Douglas  Henry  Mitchell,  11  West  Nile  St. 

James  Winning,  20  Route  de  la  Neve, 
Saint  Adresse,  Seine  Inferieure,  France. 
Thomas  Crawford,  2  Lochview  Terrace, 
Gartcosh. 

John  Watson,  Viewforth,  Bishopbriggs. 
Robert  T.  Cook,  21  Walton  Street,  Shaw- 
lands. 

Adam  Frederick  Kinghorn,  90  Mitchell 
Street. 

William  Miller  Rodger  Cook,  Greenhead 
Brewery,  Bridgeton. 

J.  Gordon  MTntyre,  Sorn  Castle,  Ayrshire. 
John  Wallace,  93  Dryburgh  Avenue, 
Ruthergien. 

Robert  Newton,  52  St.  Enoch  Square. 
Matthew  Small  Forbes,  19  Darnley  Gardens, 
Pollokshields. 

1913- 14  John  Forrest,  M.B.,  Ch.B.,  Indian  Medical 

Service,  Madras  Presidency,  South 
India. 

Frederick  Robert  Hughes  Hutton,  247  West 
George  Street. 

John  Richmond  Innes,  16  Kirklee  Road, 
Kelvinside. 

James  Alexander  Lyle,  2  Kirklee  Road, 
Kelvinside. 

George  Lyle,  jun.,  104  Kirkintilloch  Road, 
Bishopbriggs. 

David  Selkirk,  Blantyre,  Nyasaland. 

John  Hannah,  33  Hope  Street. 


APPENDIX. 


211 


Year  of 
Membership. 


Names  of  Members. 


1913-14  George  Henry  Forrest,  Public  Works 
Department,  Central  Province,  India. 
John  Dunn,  jun.,  17  Westercraigs,  Dennis- 
toun. 

Hugh  Reid  Dunn,  17  Westercraigs,  Dennis- 
toun. 


1914-15  Joseph  M'Creadie  Anderson,  690  Alexandra 
Parade. 

John  Sturgeon,  95  Minard  Road,  Cross- 
myloof. 

Ninian  Watson,  Viewforth,  Bishopbriggs. 

William  Lorimer,  jun.,  20  Mirrlees  Drive, 
Kelvinside. 

Lewis  Shedden,  Mossgiel,  Maxwell  Park. 

Samuel  Gardner,  59  Bcllwood  Street, 
Langside. 

Andrew  Bell,  326  Maxwell  Road,  Pollok- 
shields. 

James  Speirs,  3  Oakley  Terrace. 

Ian  Macpherson  Reid,  7  Park  Terrace. 

Henry  Edward  Reid,  Ravelston,  994  Great 
Western  Road. 

Eric  Charles  Scott  Reid,  Ravelston,  994 
Great  Western  Road. 

Colin  Scott  Reid,  Ravelston,  994  Great 
Western  Road. 

James  Clugston,  5  Whitehill  Gardens. 

David  M'Cowan,  9  Park  Circus  Place. 

Alexander  Williamson  Hume,  31  Eaglcs- 
ham  Street. 

John  White,  81  Rottenrow. 

Andrew  Lane,  jun.,  50  Gordon  Street. 

William  Hunter,  110  Flemington  Street, 
Springburn. 


MembersDp.  Members. 

1915-16  William  Orme  Christie,  11  Lomond  Street, 
Helensburgh. 

David  Wallace,  56  Albany  Street,  Bridge- 
ton. 

Robert  Gale,  D.S.O.,  R.A.M.C.  Head¬ 
quarters,  4th  Army  Corps. 

Thomas  Kyle,  131  Dalmarnock  Road. 

John  Drummond,  180  Abercromby  Street. 

John  Graham,  27  Onslow  Drive,  Dennis- 
toun. 

Archibald  Graham,  27  Onslow  Drive, 
Dennistoun. 

Arthur  Stephen,  Union  Bank  of  Scotland, 
Ltd.,  Charing  Cross. 

Alexander  Thomson,  5/7  Tureen  Street. 

John  Watson,  jun.,  Viewforth,  Brackenbrae 
Road,  Bishopbriggs. 

David  Alexander  Turnbull,  J.  Templeton 
&  Co.,  Greenhead,  Glasgow. 

.-Mexander  Mitchell,  142  St.  Vincent  Street. 

James  Allan  Wilson,  M.D.,  159  Canning 
Street,  Bridgeton  Cross. 

William  Graham  Liddell,  3  Royal  Exchange 
Square. 

William  Armour,  153  Queen  Street. 

Robert  William  M'Ewan,  9  Eglinton 
Drive. 

Duncan  Watson  M'Ewan,  9  Eglinton 
Drive. 

William  Clark  Eaulds,  133  Great  Hamilton 
Street. 

David  Houston  Eerguson,  Wm.  Anderson 
&  Co.,  Ld.,  12  Princes  Square. 

James  Adam,  27  Union  Street. 


HONORARY  MEMBERS. 

The  Right  Honourable  Sir  Henry  Campbell-Bannerman,  G.C.B.,  LL.D.,  M.P.,  Prime  Minister 
and  First  Lord  of  the  Treasury,  son  of  a  Member — Admitted  May,  1907. 

George  Neilson,  LL.D.,  Wellfield,  Partickhill  Road — Admitted  Ylth  September,  1909. 

The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Rosebery  and  Midlothian,  K.G.,  K.T.,  &c. — 
Admitted  3rd  September,  1915. 


APPENDIX  VIII. 


lleprinted  from  “THE  GLASGOW  HEE-AtI)  ” 

OF  ITH  September,  1915. 


The  Earl  of  Rosebery  was  yesterday  enrolled 
as  an  honorary  member  of  the  Glasgow  Incor¬ 
poration  of  Weavers.  One  of  the  most  anpient 
city  crafts,  the  Weavers  intended  last  year  to 
celebrate  the  400th  year  of  their  historical  exist¬ 
ence  with  a  banquet,  to  which  Lord  Rosebery 
accepted  an  invitation,  but  the  festivity  was 
abandoned  owing  to  the  war.  The  Incorpora¬ 
tion  subsequently  agreed  to  confer  the  honorary 
membership  of  the  craft  upon  Lord  Rosebery — 
a  distinction  held  previously  by  the  late  Sir  Heniy 
Campbell-Bannerman — and  the  formal  proceedings 
were  duly  carried  through  yesterday  at  a  domestic 
gathering  of  the  members  of  the  craft  and  of  the 
other  incorporations  within  the  historic  Trades  Hall. 
The  simple  ceremony  consisted  of  the  presentation 
of  the  ticket  of  membership,  the  signing  of  the  roll 
by  the  recipient,  and  his  swearing-in.  Lord 
Rosebery,  already  a  Bonnetmaker,  was  obviously 
highly  gratified  at  the  distinction  of  being  made  a 
Weaver,  and  thus  able  to  regard  himself  as  "  one 
in  hereditary  descent  from  the  father  of  Bailie 
Nicol  Jarvie.”  In  a  speech  of  over  20  minutes' 
duration  Lord  Rosebery,  taking  as  his  text  the 
motto  of  the  craft  to  which  he  had  just  been  elected 
— "  Weave  truth  with  trust  ” — spoke  very  frankly 
upon  some  aspects  of  the  present  controversy.  He 
commended  the  practice  of  thrift,  condemned  the 
wrangling  about  compulsory  service,  and  urged  the 
country  to  trust  the  Government.  He  appealed 
strongly  for  unity,  because  without  it  victory  would 
be  impossible. 

Mr.  William  George  Black,  LL.D.,  Deacon  of  the 
Weavers,  presidetl  over  the  proceedings.  He  was 
accompanied  on  the  platform  by  the  Lord  Provost, 
Deacon-Convener  Beattie,  Collector  John  Reid,  and 
the  Deacons  and  Collectors  of  the  other  incorpora¬ 
tions.  The  Countess  of  Crewe  occupied  a  seat  in 
front  of  the  platform  beside  Mrs.  William  George 


Black,  and  among  others  present  were  Sir  Joseph 
P.  Maclay,  Sir  Andrew  Pettigrew,  Mr.  M.  Pearce 
Campbell,  and  the  Dean  of  Guild  (Mr.  J.  D.  Hedder- 
wick,  LL.D.). 

We.wers’  400  Years’  Record. 

The  Chairman  said  they  were  met  in  a  domestic 
and  family  capacity  for  the  purpose  of  admitting 
to  their  ancient  corporation  the  most  distinguished 
of  living  Scotsmen.  (Applause.)  The  traditional 
existence  of  their  craft  as  a  constituted  body 
dated  from  at  least  1514,  and  it  was  intended  in 
September,  1914,  to  have  celebrated  their  400th 
anniversary  of  historical  existence  by  a  banquet, 
to  which  the  statesman  who  was  with  them  that 
day  had  accepted  an  invitation.  The  war  made 
any  thought  of  festivities  impossible,  but  as  Lord 
Rosebery  had  agreed  to  become  an  honorary 
member  of  the  craft  it  was  felt  that  a  domestic  and 
informal  meeting  to  welcome  him  might  be  fittingly 
held  when  his  engagements  made  it  possible  for  him 
to  be  with  them.  The  year  1514  as  the  traditional 
date  of  foundation  was  a  deeply  interesting  one,  for 
1513  was  the  year  of  Flodden,  the  saddest  and  most 
gloomy  year  that  Scotland  had  ever  known,  and 
yet  in  the  very  next  year  in  Glasgow  they  found  the 
Weavers  united  in  their  determination  to  maintain 
the  good  fellowship  and  the  discipline  of  their 
craft.  It  was  very  significant  in  this  year  of  war 
that  we  had  that  precedent  of  400  years  ago,  when 
no  sooner  was  the  war  concluded  than  Glasgow  and 
Scotland  leapt  ahead  in  enterprise.  As  it  was  then 
he  believed  it  would  be  now,  and  that  when  the 
present  war  was  over  Glasgow  and  Scotland  and 
the  British  Empire  would  again  take  the  leading 
place  in  conducting  industries  with  the  honesty  and 
good  qualities  which  had  distinguished  Great 
Britain  during  the  past  400  years.  (Applause.) 
The  objects  of  their  Corporation  had  changed  very 


APPENDIX. 


213 


much  during  its  long  history.  Instead  of  being  I 
managed  by  the  Corporation,  the  weaving  trade  in 
Glasgow  now  managed  itself,  but  the  Weavers’ 
Incorporation  had  remained,  and  was  now,  like 
all  the  other  incorporations  of  Glasgow,  able  to 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  those  who  had  fallen  in 
life’s  battle. 

An  Ex.\mple  in  Thrift. 

They  had  done  that  by  the  exercise  of  what 
the  Government  was  now  preaching — thrift.  The 
Government  could  not  find  a  better  example 
of  thrift  and  frugality  than  was  to  be  found 
in  the  trades  of  Glasgow  who  had  accumulated  by 
careful  industry  and  saving  and  honest  adminis¬ 
tration  funds  which  were  applied  to  the  last  penny 
for  the  benefit  of  those  who  received  them. 
Dr.  Black  recalled  that  the  most  famous  deacon 
of  all  the  incor].iorations  was  the  father  of  Bailie 
Nicol  Jarvie,  who  never  existed  except  in  the  brain 
of  Sir  Walter  Scott.  Everyone  who  had  worn  the 
chain  of  office  of  the  Deacon  of  the  Weavers  was 
proud  to  look  back  not  upon  the  honourable  names 
which  appeared  upon  their  roll  as  deacons  but  upon 
the  portrait  which  Sir  Walter  Scott  had  given  in 
“Rob  Roy’’  of  the  t^^rical  good  Deacon  of  the 
Incorporations  of  Glasgow.  They  were  deeply 
gratified  that  an  opportunity  had  been  afforded 
them  of  adding  to  their  roll  the  name  of  Lord 
Rosebery.  (Applause.)  On  a  previous  occasion 
they  enrolled  a  citizen  of  Glasgow  who  himself 
was  originally  directly  connected  with  the 
weaver’s  trade — Sir  Henry  Campbell-Bannerman. 
(Applause.)  They  were  glad  to  offer  honorary 
membership  to  Lord  Rosebery,  who  was  eminent 
as  a  statesman  and  as  a  historian,  and  who  was, 
above  all,  a  great  Scotsman.  Dr.  Black  concluded 
by  calling  upon  the  Clerk  to  read  the  minute  of  the 
Incorporation  with  reference  to  the  election  of 
Lord  Rosebery. 

The  Ceremony. 

Mr.  C.  J.  MacLean,  clerk  to  the  Incorporation, 
read  the  minute  admitting  Lord  Rosebery  to 
membership.  It  was  dated  Eebruary  11,  1915. 
Lord  Rosebery,  with  right  hand  upheld,  then  took 
the  oath  and  signed  the  roll. 

These  formalities  having  been  completed,  the 
Deacon  presented  to  his  Lordship  the  ticket  of 
honorary  membership.  The  ticket,  he  said,  had 
been  designed  in  the  School  of  Art  by  Mr.  Alexander 


G.  A.  Milne,  under  the  advice  of  Mr.  Newbery, 
and  was  illuminated  on  vellum  and  lettered  in  the 
style  of  the  great  period  of  illumination.  In  three 
corners  supported  by  thistles  were  hung  shields 
charged  with  the  Arms  of  the  Incorporation,  the 
City  Arms,  and  the  Arms  of  the  Trades’  House. 
On  the  left  a  panel  of  golden  shuttles  and  thread 
was  introduced,  and  the  motto  from  the  Collector’s 
box  was  introduced  on  a  cartouche.  On  the  right 
the  seal  of  the  Incorporation  was  appended  by  a 
ribbon  which  supported  the  Rosebery  Arms.  The 
ticket,  which  was  signed  by  the  Deacon,  Collector, 
and  Clerk,  bore  the  following  inscription  : — "  On 
the  eleventh  day  of  February  in  the  year  one 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  fifteen  the  honorary 
freedom  of  the  Incorporation,  founded  four  hundred 
years  ago,  was  conferred  on  the  Right  Honourable 
Archibald  Primrose,  Earl  of  Rosebery  and  Mid- 
Lothian,  K.G.,  K.T.,  etc.’’  The  casket  was  of 
polished  wood  and  painted  in  an  old  style  which 
had  recently  been  revived.  The  design  consisted 
of  a  series  of  panels  with  black  and  white  counter- 
changed  borders.  The  lid  and  ends  supported  the 
Rosebery  Arms  and  the  Arms  of  the  Incorporation 
and  city  respectively.  The  other  panels  were 
decorated  with  the  rose  and  its  berry  and  the 
primrose.  The  Deacon  concluded  by  offering  to 
Lord  Rosebery,  in  the  name  of  the  craft,  the  right 
hand  of  fellowship  and  by  recalling  their  ancient 
motto,  “  Weave  truth  with  trust.”  (Applause.) 

LORD  ROSEBERY’S  ADDRESS. 

Lord  Rosebery,  who  was  received  with  applause, 
said  :  —  Mr.  Deacon,  my  Lord  Provost,  and 
fellow-craftsmen — (applause) — I  am  greatly  honoured 
by  the  distinction  that  you  have  given  me  to-day 
in  becoming  a  member  of  jmur  ancient  craft.  I 
could  not  help  feeling,  Mr.  Deacon,  as  you  narrated 
the  circumstances  which  led  to  this  honour,  that 
when  celebrating  the  fourth  centenary  of  your 
guild,  and  thinking  how  you  could  celebrate  it 
most  appropriately,  you  looked  round  Scotland  for 
some  hoary  antiquity — (laughter) — which  you 
might  decorate  on  this  occasion,  and  that  I  was  the 
happy  object  of  your  choice.  But  I  rejoice  in 
becoming  a  member  of  this  guild.  It  is  an  ancient 
guild,  and  the  honour,  I  think,  has  only  been 
conferred  once  before,  and  though  I  am  a  Bonnet- 
maker  already  I  am  happy  to  think  that  I  may 
henceforth  be  a  Weaver.  (Applause.)  But  I 
cannot  help  feeling  that  there  is  more  in  it  than 
this,  and  that  it  is  one  new  bond — which  I  always 
welcome — of  the  many  which  gratefully  bind  me 


214 


APPENDIX. 


to  the  City  of  Glasgow.  (Applause.)  I  have  others 
of  which  I  am  proud,  which  I  need  not  enumerate 
now.  But  I  welcome  every  fresh  one,  and  if  I 
were  to  live  a  century,  which  I  do  not  quite  con¬ 
template,  I  should  hope,  one  by  one,  to  enter  all 
the  guilds  of  the  City  of  Glasgow.  (Applause.) 
But  it  is  not  for  the  first  time  that  I  am  a  weaver. 
Many  years  ago  it  was  my  honour  to  be  admitted 
a  burgess  of  the  Burgh  of  Kilmarnock.  On  that 
occasion  I  remember  congratulating  myself  that  I 
had  become  a  wabster  of  Kilmarnock — (laughter  and 
applause) — though  I  trust  I  did  not  fidge  or  claw, 
and  that  as  a  wabster  of  Kilmarnock  I  have  been 
adopted  into  that  ancient  craft  for  many  years 
before  I  entered  your  illustrious  guild. 

An  “  Infamous  Conspiracy.” 

May  I  say  one  word  about  your  motto  ?  Up 
till  August,  1914,  “  Weave  truth  with  trust  ” 
would  seem  to  me  to  have  been  an  admirable  one. 
But  I  hope  that  our  diplomatists,  whenever  they 
may  be  called  to  settle  terms  of  peace  with  the 
enemy,  will  entirely  discard  the  motto  that  you 
profess.  After  all,  we  are  called  on  now  for  a 
different  kind  of  weaving  from  any  to  which  we 
have  put  our  hands  before.  You  remember  Gray’s 
famous  lines — 

‘‘  Weave  the  warp  and  weave  the  woof. 

The  winding-sheet  of  Edward’s  race.” 

And  are  we  not  at  this  moment  engaged  in 
weaving  all  over  the  world  the  winding-sheet, 
as  we  trust,  of  the  most  infamous  conspiracy 
that  has  ever  been  known  against  the  liberties 
of  mankind  ?  (Applause.)  That  conspiracy,  both 
openly  and  in  a  subterranean  manner  carried  on, 
might  well  have  been  successful.  Every  other 
nation  was  comparatively  unprepared,  England — 
Great  Britain — the  most  so.  And  what  was  the 
design  ?  The  design  was  to  obliterate  all  the 
smaller  Powers,  to  ride  rough-shod  over  all  public 
faith  and  honour,  and  to  make  the  larger  Powers 
only  tributaries  to  Prussia.  Well,  sir,  whatever  our 
interests  may  have  been,  however  dear  to  us  all 
are  the  interests  of  peace.  Great  Britain  could  not 
stand  either  as  an  accomplice  or  even  as  a  neutral 
oliserver  of  such  an  unspeakable  crime  as  that. 
She  put  her  foot  down,  and  to  the  stamp  of  her 
foot  there  responded  millions  of  armed  men  as 
in  the  ancient  fable,  armed  men  not  from  England, 
Scotland,  and  Ireland  alone,  but  from  every  place 
all  over  the  world,  in  every  region  and  in  every 
clime  where  the  Union  Jack  waved.  (Applause.) 


That  was  the  unexpected  result  of  the  outbreak 
of  that  hideous  conspiracy — that  which  was  meant 
to  break  up  the  British  Empire  consolidated  it 
in  a  way  which  the  most  ardent  Imperialist  could 
never  have  hoped  for.  We  see  now  the  desperate 
valour  of  the  Canadians,  allied  with  our  own — 
(applause) — we  hear  of  the  almost  superhuman 
efforts  of  the  Australians  at  the  Dardanelles. 
(Applause.)  English  blood  and  Scottish  blood 
and  Irish  blood  is  flowing  with  the  blood  of 
Canadians,  Australians,  and  New  Zealanders,  and 
South  Africans,  and  Indians,  and  the  blood  of  every 
remote  island  to  which  Great  Britain  has  a  claim. 
(Applause.)  Blood  is  thicker  than  water,  but  it  is 
much  thicker,  and  it  is  much  more  than  that.  It 
is  the  cement  from  which  an  Empire  is  constructed 
— (hear,  hear,  and  applause) — which  is  meant  to 
last  throughout  all  time.  (Applause.) 

Parliament’s  Conversion  to  Thrift. 

Sir,  at  this  moment  in  the  newspapers  we  are 
occupied  with  various  topics  relating  to  the  war, 
and  from  this  abundance  of  material  I  will,  if 
you  will  allow  me,  select  three  which  appear  to 
me  to  be  eminently  worthy  of  notice.  The  first 
you  have  mentioned — I  mean  thrift.  Thrift  is  not 
a  new  topic  to  a  Scottish  audience.  (Laughter.) 
But  I  must  say  it  was  very  delightful  to  me  to  see 
a  British  Government  and  a  British  Parliament 
coming  to  advocate  the  cause  of  thrift,  because  for 
many  years  past  they  had  employed  all  the  oppor¬ 
tunities  of  expenditure  with  such  advantage  and 
profusion  that  they  had  brought  up  our  peace 
expenditure  to  £200,000,000  a  year,  without,  so 
far  as  I  am  aware,  a  single  voice  being  raised  in 
the  Government  or  in  Parliament  of  remonstrance 
or  for  economy.  I  believe  that  at  the  present 
moment  there  is  being  raised  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  Westminster  Palace  a  group  by  Rodin,  the 
illustrious  French  sculptor,  of  the  burghers  of 
Calais,  with  halters  round  their  necks,  coming  to 
implore  the  pardon  of  King  Edward.  I  cannot 
help  suggesting  that  a  corresponding  group  should 
be  made  of  Ministers  and  members  of  Parliament — 
not  all  of  them,  but  a  representative  number — 
(laughter) — of  Ministers  and  members  of  Parliament 
with  halters  round  their  necks  coming  penitentially 
for  the  first  time  in  their  political  career  to  advocate 
thrift.  (Laughter  and  applause.)  I  hope  now 
from  this  time  onwards  we  shall  have  not  merely 
the  preaching  but  the  practice  of  thrift  in  our 
public  departments  and  in  our  House  of  Commons, 
so  that  at  least  we  shall  have  reaped  that  benefit 


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from  the  horrible  calamity  of  war  in  which  we  are 
engaged. 

Compulsion  Controversy. 

Well,  the  second  point  to  which  I  would  wish 
to  address  your  attention  for  one  moment  is  the 
one  with  which  all  newspapers  may  be  said  at  this 
moment  to  reek — if  that  were  not  a  disrespectful 
expression — the  question  of  compulsory  service. 
Now,  it  is  an  admirable  subject  for  polemics  and  for 
argument  to  discuss  the  question  of  compulsory 
service.  But  the  matter  does  not  strike  me  as 
one  which  ought  to  fill  to  the  extent  that  it  does 
the  columns  of  our  press.  We  have  established 
with  great  effort  a  National  Government,  which 
means  a  Government  in  which  we  put  unlimited 
confidence,  positively  because  it  is  a  collection  of 
most  able  men,  and  negatively  because  there  is  no 
other  Government  to  take  its  place.  We  know 
also  the  disadvantages  of  swopping  horses  when  we 
are  crossing  a  stream.  Our  only  course  then,  as 
it  seems  to  me,  as  patriotic  citizens  is  to  put 
illimitable  confidence  in  the  Government. 
(Applause.)  If  the  Government  do  not  represent 
a  united  nation  they  represent  nothing,  and  if 
we  have  confidence  in  the  Government  for  all  the 
other  questions  relating  to  the  war,  surely  we 
should  have  confidence  in  the  Government,  which 
alone  has  the  necessary  information  as  to  this 
question  of  compulsory  ser\dce.  (Applause.)  Can 
we  not  trust  the  Government — and  of  course  in 
this  respect  the  Government  is  mainly  Lord 
Kitchener — can  we  not  trust  Lord  Kitchener  ? 
(Applause.) 

Newspaper  Wrangling. 

When  he  feels  it  to  be  his  duty  to  do  so,  having 
all  the  means  of  information  at  his  disposal,  can  we 
not  trust  Lord  Kitchener  to  say  to  the  country 
exactly  the  moment  at  which — if  it  ever  occurs — 
he  thinks  that  compulsory  service  should  be 
enforced  ?  (Applause.)  Why  then  wrangle  about 
it  in  the  newspapers  ?  Those  who  argue  cannot 
know  half  so  much  as  the  Government,  and  if  we 
do  not  put  trust  in  the  Government  and  Lord 
Kitchener  we  represent  indeed  a  lost  cause. 
(Applause.)  I  believe  that  if  Lord  Kitchener  found 
the  moment  ripe  and  found  the  need  imperative 
he  would  not  scruple  to  ask  the  country  to  give 
him  the  powers  requisite  for  carrying  compulsory 
service  into  effect.  Till  that  time  I  confess  I  shall 
hold  my  own  judgment,  more  especially — and  this 
is  a  point  to  which  I  attach  some  importance — as 
I  have  seen  in  none  of  these  disquisitions  any 


:  method  by  which  compulsory  service  could  be 
carried  into  effect.  It  may  be  so,  it  may  not  be 
so,  but  the  only  body  in  this  country  who  can 
authoritatively  say  that  it  can  and  should  be  carried 
out  is  the  Government,  and  I  think  that  we  all 
I  here  in  the  ancient  craft  of  Weavers  will  be 
I  disposed  to  await  the  decision  of  the  Government 
j  before  wrangling  as  to  what  it  should  be  or  as  to 
I  what  it  should  not  be.  (Applause.)  As  regards 
my  own  opinion  on  that  subject,  it  is  worthless, 
and  therefore  I  do  not  propose  to  offer  it.  I  can 
conceive  in  times  of  peace  that  there  might  have 
been  great  merits  had  it  been  possible  in  adopting 
the  Swiss  system,  which  calls  upon  every  man, 
just  as  the  Common  Law  of  Great  Britain  does,  to 
defend  his  country,  with  arms,  if  necessary,  but 
that  is  not  now  the  question.  The  question  is  as 
to  whether  you  should  now  add  to  the  millons  raised 
by  voluntary  service  an  additional  force  raised  by 
compulsion. 

!  "  Worse  than  Defeat.” 

And  my  third  point,  I  think,  is  this— that  what 
i  we  require,  if  we  would  carry  this  war  through 
I  to  a  successful  conclusion,  is  unity.  Of  course 
I  our  attitude  is  eagerly  watched  by  all  other  nations, 

1  and  without  unity  all  nations,  our  own  included, 

1  know  that  victory  will  not  be  possible.  It  is  then 
a  disheartening  thing,  worse  than  any  defeat  in 
I  battle,  to  see  huge  strikes  proceeding  in  the  very 
stress  and  agony  of  the  war.  (Applause.)  It  is 
not  for  me,  not  knowing  the  circumstances,  to 
apportion  the  responsibility  between  the  contending 
parties.  On  that  point  I  give  no  opinion,  but  I 
will  give  this  opinion  with  confidence,  that  a  huge 
strike  of  our  working  men  employed  in  providing 
the  most  necessary  munitions  of  war,  a  great  strike 
of  our  fellow-countrymen  for  a  larger  wage  at  such 
a  moment  is  worse  than  the  loss  of  a  pitched  battle 
in  the  field.  Think  what  it  means.  There  are  two 
brothers  ;  one  goes  out  to  fight  and  the  other 
remains  to  work  at  munitions  of  war  or  coal  or 
whatever  it  may  be.  The  one  brother  may  be 
killed  at  the  front  for  the  very  reason  that  his 
!  other  brother  at  home  is  refusing  to  supply  the 
Army  with  the  munitions  that  they  require. 
(Applause.)  Well,  surely  now  that  the  last  of  these 
I  ebullitions,  as  I  hope,  is  over  can  we  not  resolve 
to  proceed  with  unity — men  and  masters  in  this 
particular  instance— can  we  not  resolve  to  proceed 
with  unanimity  in  fighting  this  tremendous  war  ? 
And  as  in  thrift,  the  example  of  unity  must  come 
from  the  highest.  We  hear  whispers,  we  read 

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innuendoes  as  to — what  shall  I  say  ?  personal 
ambitions  reigning  where  they  should  not  and 
threatening  to  disturb  the  very  balance  of  the 
Cabinet  in  this  agonising  war.  I  do  not  believe 
the  rumours  ;  I  do  not  believe  the  innuendoes  ; 
but  it  may  at  any  rate  be  right  to  say  at  this 
moment  that  if  there  should  be  any  idea  of  the 
kind  the  men  who  are  responsible  for  it  will  never 
be  forgiven  by  their  country.  (Applause.)  There 
should  only  be  one  inspiring  idea  from  the  head  j 
of  the  Government  to  the  humblest  among  us — 
that  our  predominant  thought  and  our  first  motive 
of  exertion  until  peace  do  come  is  to  crush  and 
annihilate  an  infamous  enemy.  (Loud  applause.) 

It  is  only  unity  that  will  do  that  and  all  the  force 
that  we  can  put  forward  ;  and  therefore  I  with 
confidence  appeal  to  my  fellow-craftsmen  in  every 
call  or  walk  of  life  in  which  they  may  be  engaged  I 
that  they  will  remember,  as  they  probably  know  | 
already,  that  unity  is  the  secret  of  our  force,  and 
that  by  every  means  in  our  power  and  by  every  i 
discouragement  of  the  opposite  in  our  power  we 
shall  realise  and  promote  that  unity  until  victory 
is  ours.  (Loud  applause.) 

Distinction  to  the  Craft.  [ 

Deacon  Convener  Beattie,  as  convener  of  the  j 
crafts,  said  it  was  his  duty  to  welcome  Lord  Rosebery 
to  the  craft  of  the  Weavers.  Lord  Rosebery  was 
no  stranger  to  that  house,  having  delivered  an  | 
address  in  that  hall  about  25  years  ago.  He  had  j 
from  time  to  time  been  with  one  craft  or  another,  I 
and  that  day  he  (the  Deacon  Convener)  congratu¬ 
lated  the  Weavers  on  having  added  so  illustrious 
a  name  to  their  roll.  Whatever  their  colour  of  , 
politics  might  be,  they  had  always  been  full  of 
confidence  in  Lord  Rosebery’s  lead,  and  that  day 
they  felt  prouder  of  him  than  ever.  The  years  ' 
seemed  only  to  add  to  the  high  appreciation  in 
which  they  held  him.  The  crafts  of  the  Trades 
House  represented  all  classes,  and  in  adding ^such  j 
names  as  his  Lordship’s  to  the  roll  they  were  I 


binding  closer  together  all  ranks  of  society. 
(Applause.) 

On  the  call  of  the  Deacon  a  vote  of  thanks  to 
Lord  Rosebery  for  “  his  eloquent  and  important 
speech  ”  was  cordially  passed. 

The  Lord  Provost  said  that  the  meeting  was 
one  of  the  most  historical  held  in  the  city  for  many 
a  day.  He  welcomed  Lord  Rosebery  among  them. 
The  bond  between  his  Lordship  and  Glasgow  was 
becoming  strengthened  by  the  love  that  Glasgow 
people  bore  to  him.  Speaking  of  the  assistance 
which  his  Lordship  had  always  given  to  Glasgow, 
the  Lord  Provost  said  that  Lord  Rosebery  had  been 
a  wonderful  recruiting  sergeant.  (Applause.)  Few 
people  who  had  the  privilege  of  being  in  St.  Andrew’s 
Hall  on  that  memorable  evening  when  Lord 
Rosebery  was  privileged  to  declare  victory  for 
our  ships  off  the  Falkland  Islands  would  ever 
forget  the  scene,  and  they  all  hoped  and  trusted 
that  his  Lordship  might  be  spared  to  come  in 
and  out  among  the  citizens  of  Glasgow  for  many, 
many  years.  (Applause.)  He  proposed  a  vote 
of  thanks  to  the  Deacon  for  presiding.  There 
had,  he  said,  always  been  a  strong  link  between 
the  Trades  House  and  the  Incorporated  Trades 
and  the  civic  head  of  the  city.  They  had  assisted 
the  city  in  getting  recruits.  To  different  regiments 
raised  in  Glasgow  they  had  handed  over  the  instru¬ 
ments  of  music  that  inspired  men  to  “  fall  in  ” 
at  the  rear  and  become  soldiers.  (Applause.) 

“  Three  cheers  for  the  youngest  Weaver  of 
Glasgow  ”  were  afterwards  given  on  the  call  of 
the  Deacon. 

Lord  Rosebery,  in  acknowledging  the  compli¬ 
ment,  said  : — “  I  am  very  grateful,  gentlemen,  for 
your  cheers  and  for  your  cordiality.  I  am  also 
thankful  to  have  been  reminded  that  I  am  now 
one  in  hereditary  descent  from  the  father  of  Bailie 
Nicol  Jarvie.  I  shall  return  to  my  home  to-night 
to  read  ‘  Rob  Roy  ’  again  and  to  rub  up  my  remini¬ 
scences  of  any  allusions  there  may  be  to  our  ancient 
craft  in  that  novel.” 


.APPENDIX  IX. 


TEXTILE  MANUFACTURE  IN  SCOTLAND. 
PAST,  PRESENT,  AND  FUTURE. 


A  Lecture  delivered  by  Ex-Deacon  M‘E\VA]S!  to  the  Textile  Society, 
Technical  College,  Glasgow,  at  its  Opening  Meeting  in  November,  1911. 


Our  industry  may  claim  to  be  one  of  the  very  earliest  in  the  world’s  history.  Bible 
references  take  for  granted  a  familiar  knowledge  of  its  operations.  Spinning  and  weaving 
were  household  industries  in  the  time  of  Moses.  Job  uses  the  shuttle  as  a  metaphor 
illustrating  the  rapid  flight  of  days.  The  weaver’s  beam  could  indicate  fitly  the  size  of 
Goliath’s  spear,  and  from  early  times  the  whole  process  was  referred  to  as  an  apt  image 
of  the  working  out  of  our  lives.  It  is  probable  that  the  Art  had  its  origin  in  still  earlier 
times  than  our  Bible  records.  All  Eastern  nations  have  primitive  spinning  and  weaving 
appliances  for  cotton  ;  while  in  Egypt  there  were  marvellous  fabrics  of  linen  in  earlier 
times  than  those  of  Joseph  and  his  brethren.  In  South  America  and  Mexico,  before  the 
time  of  Columbus,  the  industry  was,  considering  the  appliances,  wonderfully  developed. 

During  the  first  ten  centuries  of  the  Christian  Era  there  was  a  general  spreading  of 
textile  knowledge  from  East  to  West  in  Europe.  Greece,  Italy,  and  Spain,  in  succession 
took  up  the  manufacture  of  linen,  wool  and  silk.  From  the  end  of  that  period  the  spread 
was  more  rapid  northwards  to  other  European  countries.  Probably  the  Roman  Invasion 
found  us  in  Britain  ignorant  of  Textile  Manufacture,  but  first  England  and  then  Scotland 
and  Ireland  began  making  woollens  and  linens.  The  earliest  record  of  any  legislation 
in  Scotland  bearing  on  Textiles  is  in  the  “  Leges  Burgorum  ”  of  David  I.  in  the  twelfth 
century,  prohibiting  anyone  but  a  burgess  weaving  for  the  inhabitants  of  each  burgh. 
By  the  fourteenth  century  the  spread  of  the  industry  over  England  was  general,  and  in 
the  fifteenth  there  was  quite  a  fair  proportion  of  our  own  inhabitants  in  the  West  of 
Scotland  employed  in  weaving  wool  and  linen. 

The  fabrics  made  in  early  days  are  not  easy  to  identify.  As  in  these  days  communi¬ 
cation  was  slow  and  costly,  local  weavers  had  to  supply  all  requirements — household 
linen  and  blankets  as  well  as  material  for  personal  wear.  Herdin  is  a  term  used  which 
may  have  applied  to  what  we  now  call  homespun.  Playd  and  lining  of  both  wool  and 
linen  evidently  describe  check  and  stripe  fabrics.  In  the  records  of  the  Incorporation 
of  Weavers  about  1604  there  are  entries  referring  to  Linchie-W inchie  and  Linsey-wolsey, 
which  indicate  a  fabric  known  later  as  wincey,  originally  of  linen  warp  wool  weft,  latterly 
of  cotton  warp  wool  weft,  and  which  in  the  middle  of  last  century  bulked  as  a  large 
proportion  of  Glasgow’s  output  of  textiles.  “  Gam-heckling  ”  is  a  term  frequently  used. 
It  was  probably  a  coarse  towelling  made  from  the  refuse  of  the  heckling  process  of  the 
preparation  of  flax  for  spinning.  “  Bumbasie  ”  and  “  sea-bumbasie  ”  are  often  referred 
to  during  the  seventeenth  century  records  and  was  probably  a  combination  of  silk  with 
linen. 

About  1627  there  appear  entries  which  show  that  warping,  at  an  earlier  time  done 
by  the  weaver  himself,  had  become  a  separate  trade.  In  1638  an  entry  appears  as  to  a 
‘‘  manufactorie  ”  in  the  Drygate,  which  had  been  leased  by  the  town,  and  on  representation 
by  the  Incorporation,  conditions  were  imposed  protecting  the  craft.  In  1678  a  Burgess 


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ticket  bore  that  while  it  gave  valuable  privileges,  its  holder  undertook  stringent  obligations 
of  service  to  the  town,  and  also  "  renunced  the  Romane  Religione  called  papistrie.” 

In  1715  the  Burgh  Records  mention  two  gifts  offered  to  Royalty — one  of  plaids  “  as 
used  by  our  women  for  covers  when  they  go  abroad,”  accepted  by  the  Princess  of  Wales, 
and  one  of  500  infantry,  which  the  King  did  not  accept. 

In  October,  1728,  an  interesting  appointment  was  made.  The  Town  Council  then 
approved  of  a  contract  between  the  Magistrates  and  Susanah  Smith,  widow  of  Rev.  Archd. 
Wallace,  minister  of  Cardross,  by  which  Mrs.  Wallace  was  nominated  "  mistress  of  the 
public  school  erected  in  the  city  for  teaching  girls  to  spin  flax  with  fine  yarn  fit  for  making 
thread  or  cambrick,”  probably  the  beginning  of  Technical  Education  in  Glasgow.  The 
lady  was  to  receive  an  annual  encouragement  of  £30  granted  by  the  Commissioners  and 
Trustees  of  the  Improvement  of  fisheries  and  manufactories  in  Scotland. 

The  invention  in  1738  of  the  Flying  Shuttle  by  John  Kay,  of  Bury,  marks  an  epoch 
in  hand-loom  weaving.  This  invention  nearly  doubled  the  output  of  the  operative.  In 
1760,  Robert  Kay,  a  son,  followed  up  his  father’s  invention  by  the  drop  box  which  still 
further  aided  the  production  of  plaid  fabrics.  In  1759  a  branch  of  silk  manufacture 
from  Spitalfield  was  established  in  Paisley,  and  this  probably  led  to  the  developments 
of  the  "  Paisley  Shawl.”  There  was  then  a  large  employment  in  Paisley  of  Silk  Gauze 
Weavers.  An  Italian  gentleman  who  visited  the  town  in  1788  writes  in  the  following 
glowing  terms  ; — 

“  The  population  of  Paisley  interests  the  sensibility  of  a  traveller,  not  only 
by  the  constant  occupation  to  which  he  sees  them  devoted,  but  likewise  by  the 
simplicity  and,  at  the  same  time,  the  elegance  of  their  manners.  The  town 
abounds  with  most  beautiful  women  ;  these  in  the  morning  and  during  the  day 
are  quite  retired  and  occupied  in  their  trade,  without  shoes  and  stockings,  as  is 
usual  over  all  Scotland,  and  poorly  dressed.  These  same  women  in  summer, 
about  eight  in  the  evening,  meet  and  walk  through  the  long,  neat  street,  which 
forms  as  it  were  the  whole  of  the  place,  divided  into  bands,  dressed  with  so  much 
elegance  and  decency,  that  they  invite  a  wish  to  prolong  one’s  stay,  which  the 
Scotch  vivacity,  far  superior  to  the  English,  promises  to  render  agreeable  and 
diverting.  In  fact,  after  the  walk,  almost  every  evening  there  is  a  dance.  At 
the  hour  of  ten  all  go  to  sleep,  and  the  day  which  succeeds  is  like  the  preceding, 
equally  occupied  and  delightful,  although  the  town  has  no  theatre,  nor  that 
public  place  so  much  a  favourite  with  the  English,  among  whom  it  is  common, 
called  a  bowling  green,  nor  indeed,  any  other  spectacle  which  collects  and 
entertains  the  people.  It  is  important,  however,  to  know  that  this  people  is 
satisfied  and  completely  tranquil.” 

.\bout  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  the  dress  trade  was  the  principal  industry 
of  Norwich  and  gave  employment  to  a  large  number  of  hand-loom  weavers.  The  then 
Vicar  of  Norwich  published  a  quaint  volume  ”  The  Art  of  Weaving  Spiritualised,”  which 
has  come  into  my  hands.  Throughout  he  magnifies  the  art  and  those  employed  in  it.  Here 
are  a  few  couplets  : — 

”  How  swiftly  doth  my  shuttle  fly 
To  th’  other  hand,  and  by  and  by 
Returns  to  th’  other  hand  it  first  did  throw 
Stops  not  at  all,  nor  yet  moves  slow  ; 

But  as  it  moves  a  thread  doth  stay 

To  be  united  by  the  slay 

Unto  the  web  ;  All  our  days  here 

Swifter  than  weavers’  shuttles  are 

(Saith  Holy  Job).  Souls  cannot  rest 

Idle  at  all,  but  work  what’s  best  or  worst.” 


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“  .  .  .  .  My  head,  my  hand. 

Mine  eye,  my  feet,  move  at  command 
Of  my  quick  soul ;  each  act  their  part 
While  I  am  in  my  weaver’s  art. 

The  head  contrives,  the  hand  doth  cast 
The  shuttle,  feet  do  move  as  fast. 

All  is  at  work,  the  nimble  eye 
Observeth  how  the  shuttles  fly.” 

I  cannot  find  that  there  is  now  any  textile  industry,  though  there  were  in  1860  to  1870 
skilful  manufacturers  in  Norwich.  The  late  Mr.  John  Ingram  told  me  that  he  had  often 
seen  there  fine  examples,  specially  of  cross-over  shawls.  The  grouping  of  larger  numbers 
of  hand  looms  as  factories,  and  the  invention  of  the  steam  engine,  suggested  the  application 
of  power,  and  as  regards  Glasgow,  the  earliest  record  is  as  follows  : — 

"  The  power  loom  was  introduced  to  Glasgow  in  1773  by  Mr.  James  Louis 
Robertson,  of  Dunblane,  who  set  up  two  of  them  in  Argyle  Street,  which  were 
set  in  motion  by  a  large  Newfoundland  dog  performing  the  part  of  gin-horsc. 
John  Robertson,  a  Pollokshaws  power-loom  tenter,  in  several  letters  sent  to  the 
Glasgow  Herald  in  January  and  February,  1871,  stoutly  contests  the  accuracy 
of  this  statement,  and  contending  that  Mr.  Pagan  must  have  been  misinformed, 
he  says  that  a  man  named  Adam  Kinloch  whom  he  met  in  1845,  and  who  was  then 
eighty-five  years  of  age  ”  made  the  first  two  power-looms  that  ever  were  made 
in  the  world,  and  drove  them  with  the  use  of  a  crank  by  his  own  hand,  in  a  court 
off  the  Gallowgate  in  1793.” 

He  managed  after  an  outlay  of  100  guineas  to  produce  about  90  yards  of  cloth.  This 
sum  was  jointly  subscribed  for  the  experiment  by  four  members  of  the  Glasgow  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  Shortly  afterwards,  Andrew  got  the  loom  conveyed  to  Milton  Printfield  at 
Dumbuck,  where  40  looms  on  the  same  principle  were  erected  under  his  direction.  In 
1845  these  machines,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  slight  improvements,  remained  as  they 
were,  and  were  working  at  Pollokshaws  and  Paisley. 

A  volume  by  John  Murphy  named  “  The  Manufacturer’s  and  Weaver’s  Companion,” 
published  in  1810,  is  dedicated  to  Henry  Monteith,  of  Monkland,  and  there  it  is  stated  that 
It  is  well  known  your  father  was  the  first  in  Scotland  who  manufactured  a  web  wholly 
of  cotton  yarn  ;  and  it  is  to  his  industry,  the  persevering  ingenuity  of  his  family,  and  the 
consequent  stimulus  excited  in  others  by  such  exertions,  that  Scotland  is  indebted  for  its 
present  extensive  knowledge  of  this  branch  of  commerce,  which  contributes  by  honest 
industry  to  the  support  of  so  many  thousands  of  the  community,  while  it  reflects  a  lustre 
on  the  British  name,  and  is  a  reservoir  of  wealth  to  the  country  at  large.” 

A  very  rapid  expansion  of  Textile  industry  occurred  in  the  earlier  half  of  the  nine¬ 
teenth  century.  The  extension  of  carriage  facilities  by  the  development  of  railway.s,  and 
the  increase  of  postal  facilities  were  important  factors.  Linens,  at  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  bore  an  outstanding  part  in  the  employment  of  Glasgow  hand-loom 
weavers,  but  that  material  was  rapidly  displaced  by  cotton ;  and  linen,  early  in  the 
nineteenth  century,  almost  disappeared  from  the  West  of  Scotland,  locating  itself  in  the 
East— in  Fifeshire,  where  its  development  has  been  more  and  more  firmly  established. 
Forfarshire  later  ha.s  secured  the  jute  industry,  and  they  between  them  now  employ  about 
20,000  power  looms.  The  manufacture  of  heavier  woollen  goods  for  household  use  and 
men's  wear  gradually  left  the  West  and  became  established  in  the  Hillfoots  and  South  of 
Scotland,  where  it  has  increased  and  prospered.  As  to  the  development  of  cotton 
weaving  by  power  loom,  naturally  its  earliest  use  was  for  the  simplest  fabrics,  and  from 
the  beginning,  already  described  by  James  Monteith,  there  was  a  rapid  spread  of  the 
industry  in  plain  calicoes  and  muslins.  In  1830  there  were  about  15,000  power  looms  in 
Scotland,  but  hand  weaving  continued  to  be  employed  for  more  fanciful  work — such  as 


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spotted  and  lappet  muslins,  also  coloured  ginghams  and  pullicates,  and  what  may  broadly 
be  described  as  “  Dress  Goods.”  In  1830  there  were  thus  employed  in  Scotland,  mainly 
in  the  West,  about  45,000  hand-loom  weavers.  While  the  production  of  heavier  plain 
grey  cottons  _has  diminished  here  and  drifted  to  Lancashire,  lighter  fabrics  of  the  muslin 
order  have__remained,  and^now  employ  about  14,000  looms.  ^An  item  of  this  manufacture, 
important  to__Glasgow,  was  the  production  of  hand-sewed  muslins,  which  from  1830  to 
1860  gave  a  large  employment  to  women  in  the  West  of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  but  that 
trade  has  completely  passed.  There  has  been  in  comparatively  recent^times  a^development 
of  curtain  manufacture  in  Glasgow  and^Ayrshire,  about  40  firms  being^at  present  engaged 
in  this  branch.  The  gingham^industry  has  in  later  days  taken  the  form  of  zephyr  and 
oxford  fabrics,  and  is  at  the  present  day  quite  an  important  part  of  the  coloured  weaving 
trade.  In  the  dress  trade  Gala  Plaids  formed  a  large  item  in  the  years  from  1850  to  1865, 
and  there  were  also  many  forms  of  cotton,  worsted  and  silk  variously  combined,  of  what 
we  may  call  the  stuff  trade,  which,  after  a  longer  or  shorter  run  here,  succumbed  to  a 
successful  competition  from  Bradford.  From  1860  to  1880  wincies  were  a  large  item — 
cotton  warp  with  varied  woollen  filling,  which  latterly  became  an  entirely  cotton  fabric, 
produced  more  cheaply  in  Yorkshire.  Druggets  and  Skirtings  also  in  later  days  proved 
an  important  branch  of  manufacture,  but  fashion’s  vagaries  again  made  them  a  thing  of 
the  past.  Woollen  Tartans  and  Crimean  Flannels  have  in  varying  forms  remained  with 
Glasgow  during  the  later  part  of  the  last  century  till  now. 

In  all  of  these  fabrics  there  was  the  interesting  change  from  hand  to  power  loom 
manufacture  during  the  middle  years  of  the  century — say  from  1860  to  1880.  The  old 
days  of  preparing  warps  and  wefts  and  sending  them  in  bags  by  carrier  to  all  the  surrounding 
districts,  and  receiving  back  the  woven  clotn  in  more  or  less  satisfactory  condition,  at  a 
more  or  less  satisfactory  interval,  are  now  memories,  and  that  only  to  the  grey  and  bald 
heads  among  us.  This  coloured  trade  is  now  represented  by  about  7,000  looms,  and  may 
be  said  to  have  fallen  on  evil  times  compared  with  thirty  years  ago  when  there  were  over 
double  that  number  of  looms  employed. 

While  no  absolutely  complete  review  of  the  Textile  Trade  is  attempted,  an  interesting 
and  important  feature  of  early  last  century  should  not  be  omitted— the  Paisley  Shawl 
Trade.  It  may  be  regarded  as  the  climax  and  triumph  of  handloom  weaving  skill. 
Originally  suggested  by  beautiful  hand  work  from  India,  the  productions  of  the  loom 
equalled,  if  they  did  not  excel  the  originals.  Beginning  in  1820  with  the  Draw  Loom, 
and  later  produced  by  the  Jacquard,  the  trade  had  its  prosperous  and  disastrous  times 
for  about  50  years.  It  was  the  main  industry  for  half-a-century  of  a  town  of  40,000  inhabi¬ 
tants  ;  but  is  now,  as  are  its  interesting  producers,  the  Paisley  Weavers,  every  third  a 
poet,  a  thing  of  the  past. 

Carpet  Weaving,  of  which  the  history  is  comparatively  a  short  one,  began  in 
Kilmarnock,  and  is  still  an  important  part  of  that  town’s  industry,  but  the  trade  spread 
to  Glasgow  and  other  places  in  the  West  of  Scotland,  and  now  forms  an  important  part 
of  the  textile  output  of  the  West.  The  great  development  of  pile  carpet  weaving  may 
be  noticed.  The  Carpets  used  at  the  Coronations  of  King  Edward  VII.  and  George  V. 
were  made  in  Glasgow. 

Though  only  processes  applied  after  manufacture.  Calico  printing  and  Turkey  Red 
dyeing  and  printing  have  been  and  are  still,  though  somewhat  diminished  in  volume, 
large  sources  of  employment  in  the  West  of  Scotland.  Calico  printing  was  begun  in  1738, 
and  greatly  developed  in  Scotland  in  the  later  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Lancashire 
has  been  a  serious  competitor.  A  large  amalgamation  took  place  about  twenty  years  ago, 
and  now  there  are  very  few  firms  outside  of  that  combine  which  includes,  and  indeed  is 
controlled  in,  Lancashire.  Turkey  Red  originated  in  the  country  whose  name  it  carries, 
but  was  first  introduced  in  yarn  dyeing  to  this  country,  in  Glasgow,  towards  the  closing 
years  of  the  eighteenth  century — cloth  dyeing  and  printing  followed  about  twenty  years 
later.  The  industry,  while  controlled  in  Glasgow,  has  long  been  localized  in  the  Vale  of 


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Leven,  where  it  was  the  principal  employment  during  last  century.  It  continues  as  one 
concern,  under  the  combination  of  the  United  Turkey  Red  Company,  to  be  the  largest 
industry  in  the  Vale  of  Leven. 

Although  knitting  is  not  strictly  within  the  scope  of  this  subject,  the  development 
of  manufacturing  hosiery  and  caps  by  the  use  of  the  knitting  machine  during  the  last 
thirty  years  is  a  prominent  instance  of  enterprise  in  the  West  and  South  of  Scotland. 

The  hand-loom  weaving  industry  was  from  1830  to  1860  spread  over  numerous 
villages  in  Lanarkshire,  Renfrewshire  and  Ayrshire.  In  addition  to  about  20,000  in  the 
city  proper,  there  were  several  hundreds  in  each  of  the  following  towns  and  villages— 
Lanark,  Hamilton,  New  Monkland,  Lesmahagow,  Avondale,  Rutherglen,  Govan,  East 
Kilbride,  Dalserf,  Bothwell,  Eastwood,  Neilston,  Paisley,  Kilbarchan,  Lochwinnoch, 
Renfrew,  Houston,  Kilellan,  Kilmarnock,  Ayr,  Maybole,  Girvan,  Crossbill,  Mauchline, 
Tarbolton,  and  many  other  villages  having  smaller  numbers. 

With  varyung  fortunes,  according  to  the  smaller  cycles  of  busier  and  slacker  times, 
these  hand-loom  weavers  passed  through  the  thirty  years  named,  but  generally  the 
employment  became  less  steady,  and  the  labour  worse  paid  owing  to  the  competition 
of  power  looms  and  other  causes.  The  twenty  years  from  1860  to  1880  saw  a  gradual 
decline,  and  other  twenty  years  found  the  hand-loom  weavers  as  a  body  unknown. 

In  1830  there  were  about  14,000  power  looms,  6,500  operatives  and  45,000  hand-loom 
weavers  in  the  three  counties  : —  Total  Operatives. 

In  1857,  -  1,400,000  Spindles,  21,575  Power  looms,  -  -  -  31,710 

„  1861,  -  1,600,000  ,,  28,085  „  .  -  -  36,903 

„  1875,  -  1,500,000  „  27,479  „  .  -  -  33,276 

There  are  now  about  300,000  spindles,  and  about  21,000  looms — no  statistics  for 
operatives  are  given,  but  15,000  is  probably  a  full  estimate. 

This  brief  review  of  Textile  Manufacture  in  the  West  of  Scotland  has  shown  that 
it  is  like  the  restless  sea,  ever  changing.  Its  tides  ebb  and  flow,  and  passing  clouds  of 
fashion — social  and  economic  changes — all  tell  on  its  aspect.  No  industry  is  more 
engrossing  from  its  endless  details,  yet  to  the  man  with  high  technical  skill,  combined  with 
an  alert  practical  mind,  there  are  in  the  industry  large  opportunities. 

The  eye  and  mind  must  be  ever  watchful  for  the  caprices  of  fashion,  ready  to  embody 
them  in  suitable  fabrics.  New  materials  and  new  processes  should  be  earnestly  and 
promptly  studied.  New  appliances  should  also  receive  prompt  consideration,  but  in 
this  direction  it  is  good  advice  to  “  gang  warily  ”  ;  pioneers  in  textile  appliances  often 
tread  a  thorny  road.  There  are  vicissitudes  in  the  various  branches  which  are  utterly 
beyond  the  control  of  the  manufacturers.  As  an  instance  the  hobble  skirt  entirely  threw 
out  the  Northampton  makers-up  of  ladies’  fancy  underskirts.  Makers  for  Foreign  Markets 
have  constantly  been  upset  by  Tariff  alterations.  On  the  other  hand,  many  successful 
strokes  have  been  made  by  clever  adaptation  to  meet  tariffs.  Economies  in  processes 
should  be  constantly  sought  after.  Pioneers  on  these  generally  find  them  exceedingly 
profitable.  When  a  depression  comes  the  manufacturer  has  a  hard  problem  to  work  out  ; 
whether  to  face  radical  changes  or  to  struggle  along  waiting  a  revival.  The  only  safeguard 
is  plentiful  depreciation.  Be  ready  to  scrap  what  is  or  is  becoming  obsolete. 

Ours  is  certainly  not  a  trade  where  any  faculties  can  be  allowed  to  sleep.  The  constant 
change  demands  an  alert  mind.  No  one  can  possibly  be  a  successful  competitor  who  is 
not  master  of  his  trade,  and  certainly  the  opportunities  for  becoming  so  are  now  most 
complete.  The  student  of  to-day  can  study  every  process.  The  responsibilityjfor’fully 
using  such  opportunities'is  relatively  great.  The  Weaving  School  in  its  various  branches 
provides  the  Technical  skill,  andjthe  Society  under  whose  auspices  we  meet  for  the  first 
time  to-night  should  bring  out  the  other  faculties  which  I  have  described — calm  judgment 
and  alert  watchful  minds.  I  leave  the  future  with  the  utmost  confidence  in  the  hands 


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of  the  Textile  students  of  the  Technical  College.  I.et.me  close  with  another  bit  from  the 
Norwich  Vicar  of  200  years  ago : — 

"  If  curious  work  doth  merit  just  esteem, 

Most  curious  work  doth  pass  the  weaver’s  beam, 

What  more  ingenious  work  can  one  behold. 

Than  damask  stuffs,  and  ribbons  flowered  with  gold  ; 

Rich  velvet,  arras,  tapestries  most  fine. 

Brocades,  gallowns,  and  cloaths  of  gold  that  shine 
Ev'n  to  the  dazzling  the  beholder's  eye, 

On  earth  we  nothing  of  more  splendour  see 
Than  these  fine  things  performed  by  weaver’s  art. 

Yet  in  the  splendour  lies  the  smallest  part, 

Of  that  engine  which  doth  the  same  compleat 
And  fashion  all  by  work  of  hands  and  feet. 

After  the  head  maturely  hath  devised. 

How  all  should  be  proportioned,  framed  and  fixed. 

The  pullies,  cords,  and  shafts  in  order  set. 

By  mathematic  art,  the  loom  doth  get 
A  conjuring  or  astrologic  spell 
By  which  the  curious  artist  can  foretell 
What  figure  shall  cast  up  by  this  rare  gin 
After  ten  thousand  threads  are  wafted  in. 

And  every  time  the  shuttle  through  doth  go 
The  wood  of  threeds,  the  frame’s  contrived  so 
It  gives  unto  the  web  another  face. 

Threeds  that  were  down  start  up  in  every  place 
Just  as  the  cunning  artist  hath  designed, 

Yet  every  thread  is  to  its  place  confined 
Some  yards  or  more,  if  so  he  doth  intend. 

Thus  he  works  on  before  his  figure  end  : 

Which  being  finished  he  again  begins 
To  fix  his  pullies,  lashes  cords  and  pins 
In  the  same  order  as  they  were  before. 

And  then  again  he  acts  the  same  thing  o'er. 

The  threads  all  marshalled  in  due  order  stand. 

He,  general  like,  a  word  gives  of  command 
To’s  aid-de-camp,  to  draw  the  cord  in  front ; 

At  sight,  a  whole  brigade  of  threads  do  mount 
Aloft  with  speed,  which  were  before  deprest. 

The  upper  line  doth  downward  go  in  haste, 

A  lane  they  make  through  which  the  shuttle  goes 
The  tread  prest  down  again  they  quickly  close 
The  lea  he  handles  and  strikes  home  with  blows. 

The  feeble  threed  which  shuttle  brought  along 
This  with  the  web  incorporate  is  made  strong. 

Warp  threeds  do  all  in  battle  order  stand 
And  march  and  counter-march  at  his  command. 

None  from  their  place  or  station  start  aside 
Nor  out  of  rank  and  file  do  step  astride. 

Their  ranks  they  close,  the  nimble  pullies  wheel 
By  stamp  of  foot  he  doth  his  armies  dreel. 

Each  acts  his  part  upon  the  web’s  surface. 

Which  having  done,  returns  into  its  place. 

Just  like  so  many  actors  in  a  play 

Perform  their  parts  and  then  do  shrink  away.” 


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Roll. 

2284 

Alexander,  William 

w 

Solicitor,  Dunblane 

Entry. 

1871 

2285 

Alexander,  James 

H  &  W 

105  Clyde  Street,  Anderston 

1871 

2339 

Anderson,  David  H. 

W 

Gayton  Grange,  Heswall,  Cheshire 

1874 

2406 

Alston,  William  M. 

W 

24  Sardinia  Terrace,  Hillhead 

1878 

2501 

Alexander,  Rev.  A.  B.  D. 

W 

Langbank 

1883 

2534 

Alexander,  James 

W 

*78  Miller  Street 

1884 

2551 

Allardyce,  Archibald  M'N. 

Hammer 

75  Buchanan  Street 

1885 

2560 

Aitken,  James  G. 

W 

Endrick  Bank,  12  Brownside  Road, 

2570 

Arthur,  Andrew 

W 

Cambuslang 

78  Queen  Street 

1885 

1885 

2571 

Arthur,  James 

W 

78  Queen  Street 

1885 

2602 

Allan,  E.  J.  M. 

W 

60  South  Portland  Street 

1886 

2626 

Allan,  William  Hadyn 

W 

162a  New  City  Road 

1889 

2636 

Allan,  William 

W 

8  Eirpark  Terrace,  Dennistoun 

1890 

2685 

Allan,  James 

W 

13  John  Street 

1894 

2714 

Alexander,  Jas.  M. 

W 

1 1  Belmont  Crescent,  W. 

1895 

2715 

Alexander,  David  D. 

W 

1 1  Belmont  Crescent,  W. 

1895 

2781 

Anderson,  Dr.  William 

W 

*The  Shrublands,  Leytonstone, 

2849 

Auchinvole,  Stewart  P. 

W 

London,  N.E. 

113  Virginia  Place 

1899 

1903 

2872 

Andrew,  James 

W 

160  West  George  Street 

1903 

B 


4 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2895 

2896 

2955 

2958 

2959 

2982 

2985 

2986 

3038 

3046 

3050 

3058 

3085 

4017 

4022 

4073 

4074 

4080 

4081 

4101 

4103 

2324 

2429 

2430 

2431 

2512 

2617 

2677 

2678 

2684 

2722 

2731 

2732 

2748 

2763 

2771 

2778 

2782 

2830 

2855 

2856 

2859 

2878 

2898 

2939 

2940 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


\’ear 


Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

Alexander,  Robt.  G. 

W 

Moorcroft,  Kilmacolm 

1904 

Arthur,  The  Hon.  J.  Cecil 

W 

Treesbank,  Kilmarnock,  Ayrshire 

1904 

Adam,  Thos. 

w 

27  Union  Street 

1906 

Alston,  Edw. 

w 

c/o  L.  J.  Tremayne,  Whitehall  House, 
29-30  Charing  Cross,  London, 

S.W.  1.  1906 

Alston,  Chas.  F. 

W 

*74  E.  Twelfth  Street,  Oakland, 
California 

1906 

Adam,  Jas. 

W 

51  Buchanan  Street 

1907 

Alston,  Cauvin  S. 

Barber 

190  West  George  Street 

1907 

Alston,  Win.  B. 

Barber 

Eastvale  Place,  Kelvinhaugh  Street  1907 

Anderson,  Wm.,  O.B.E. 

W 

12  Princes  Square 

1910 

Adam,  Wm. 

W 

62  Castlereagh  Road,  Belfast 

1911 

Allan,  D.  S. 

Mason 

41  St.  Vincent  Place 

1911 

Abell,  Harry  Lethbridge 

W 

W.  Ray  &  Co.,  3  Union  Street 

1912 

Anderson,  Joseph  M. 

W 

690  Alexandra  Parade 

1915 

Armour,  William 

W 

153  Queen  Street 

1916 

Adam,  James 

W 

27  Union  Street 

1916 

Allan,  E.  J.  Mozart,  jun. 

W 

60  South  Portland  Street 

1919 

Anderson,  William  Boyd 

W 

17  Pollok  Road,  Shawlands 

1919 

Anderson,  Wm.  M. 

W 

228  Nithsdale  Road,  Pollokshields 

1919 

Anderson,  George  L. 

W 

228  Nithsdale  Road,  Pollokshields 

1919 

Armour,  William  N. 

W 

40  West  Nile  Street 

1920 

Anderson,  Alex. 

W 

16  Regent  Park  Terrace 

1920 

Bruce,  Henry 

W 

*17  Myrtle  Street 

1873 

Brown,  Daniel 

W 

705  Shields  Road,  Pollokshields 

1879 

Brown,  David  R. 

W 

♦Victoria 

1879 

Brown,  Frank  H. 

W 

70  Great  Clyde  Street 

1879 

Brown,  Alex.  T. 

W 

6  Olrig  Terrace,  Pollokshields 

1882 

Buchanan,  James 

W 

*720  Barking  Road,  Plaistow,  E., 
London,  W. 

1888 

Baillie,  James 

Barber 

12  Wilson  Street,  Hillhead 

1894 

Buchanan,  John 

Skinner 

27  Randolph  Gardens,  Partick 

1894 

Brown,  David  S. 

W 

139  Greenhead  Street,  Bridgeton 

1894 

Baillie,  J.  G.  A. 

Gardener 

Kentledge,  Ramsgate 

1895 

Brown,  Hugh,  C.A. 

W 

58  St.  Vincent  Street 

1896 

Brown,  Laurence  R. 

W 

9  Clairmont  Gardens 

1896 

Brown,  Nicol  Paton,  C.B.E. 

W 

22  Belhaven  Terrace 

1897 

Brown,  Thos. 

Barber 

*46  Newhall  Street,  Greenhead 

1899 

Bryce,  Chas.  C. 

Maltman 

43-45  Great  Tower  Street,  London, 
E.C.3. 

1899 

Brodie,  Wm. 

Cordiner 

77  St.  Vincent  Street 

1899 

Barr,  John 

W 

Ashgrove,  Busby 

1899 

Brown,  Hugh  T. 

W 

1 1 1  French  Street,  Bridgeton 

1902 

Brodie,  John  M'Clure 

W 

Schoolhouse,  Wallaceville,  by  Upper 

Hutt,  Wellington,  New  Zealand  1903 

Brodie,  Thomson 

W 

9  Windsor  Terrace,  W.,  Kelvinside 

1903 

Blackie,  Walter  W.,  B.Sc. 

W 

17  Stanhope  Street 

1903 

Blyth,  Robt.  Oswald 

W 

Balvonie,  Skelmorlie 

1903 

Black,  William  George,  LL.D., 

,  C.B.E.  W 

Ramoyle,  Dowanhill  Gardens 

1904 

Baird,  David 

Bonnetmaker 

110  Hamilton  Road,  Rutherglen 

1905 

Baird,  Harry 

Bonnetmaker  40  Queensborough  Gardens,  Kelvin- 
side 

1905 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2954 

2956 

2964 

2971 

2991 

3004 

3030 

3061 

3091 

4027 

4050 

4064 

4065 

4068 

4075 

4077 

4082 

4083 

4084 

4102 

4116 

4117 

2336 

2427 

2459 

2488 

2497 

2518 

2542 

2552 

2553 

2598 

2620 

2627 

2646 

2673 

2706 

2711 

2712 

2713 

2741 

2744 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


5 


Name. 

Craft. 

Binnie,  Thos.,  jun. 

M 

Baird,  Andw. 

Cordiner 

Birrell,  Alex. 

W 

Burnet,  W.  A. 

W 

Baxter,  Robt. 

W 

Brodie,  Malcolm  M. 

Cordiner 

Brown,  Rev.  T. 

W 

Baird,  John 

Cordiner 

Bell,  Andrew 

W 

Buchanan,  Alex. 

Borland,  David 

Barber 

Buchanan,  John  A. 

W 

Brown,  George 

W 

Brown,  Adam  G. 

W 

Baillie,  Andrew  S. 

Barber 

Brown,  C.  Gordon 

W 

Baird,  James  W. 

Cordiner 

Brown,  Robert  S. 

W 

Brown,  Hugh,  jun. 

W 

Buchanan,  R.  J. 

W 

Baird,  David,  jun. 

W 

Baird,  Robert  N. 

W 

Couper,  James 

W 

Cunningham,  James 

Gardener 

Cubic,  Alexander  P. 

W 

Carrick,  James 

W 

Clarke,  William 

W 

Clark,  C.  E. 

W 

Caldwell,  Alex.  S. 

W 

Campbell,  William  A. 

W 

Campbell,  M.  Pearce,  D.L. 

W 

Caskie,  Dr.  W.  A. 

W 

Chesney,  Benjamin 

W 

Craighead,  William 

W 

Craig,  Hugh  J. 

W 

Cuzen,  Francis  G. 

W 

Campbell,  Colin 

W 

Cherry,  Jas.  S. 

Maltman 

Cherry,  Wm. 

Maltman 

Cherry,  Gavin  S. 

Maltman 

Carrick,  Peter  M. 

W 

Crosland,  Stanley  P. 

s  W 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

207  Hope  Street  1906 

93  Hutcheson  Street  1906 

114  John  Street  1906 

2  East  St.  Vincent  Lane  1906 

51  Alexandra  Parade  1908 

111  William  Street,  Melbourne, 

Australia  1908 

The  Manse,  197  Gold  Street,  Clifton- 

hill,  Melbourne,  Australia  1909 

93  Hutcheson  Street  1912 

11  Annfield  Road,  Partickhill, 

Glasgow  1915 

77  Winston  Street,  Parkhead  1917 

72  \Trginia  Street  1918 

9  Jamieson  Street,,  Govanhill  1919 

226  Sandyhills,  Shcttleston  1919 

2  Oswald  Street  1919 

12  Wilson  Street,  Hillhead  1919 

79  Canning  Street  1919- 

15  jNIitchell  Drive,  Rutherglen  1919 

Croftmore,  Skelmorlie  1919 

Croftmore,  Skelmorlie  1919 

21  St.  Mungo  Street  1920 

Mossbank,  110  Hamilton  Road, 

Rutherglen  1920 

Mossbank,  110  Hamilton  Road, 

Rutherglen  1920 


21  Drybuigh  Avenue,  Rutherglen  1874 
20  Clarendon  Place,  Mount  Preston, 

Leeds  1879 

7  Forest  Street,  Clinton,  Massa¬ 
chusetts,  U.S.A.  1880 

62  Argyle  Street  1882 

81  St.  Vincent  Street  1882 

Hayfield  Dunoon  1883 

95  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun  1885 

137  Ingram  Street  1885 

137  Ingram  Street  1885 

1  Beechwood  Drive,  Jordanhill, 

Glasgow  1 886 

22  Caledonia  Road  1888 

*51  Whitevale  Street  1889 

17  Hamilton  Drive,  Hillhead  1892 

81  Rottenrow  1893 

*1133  Pollokshaws  Road,  High 

Shawlands,  Glasgow  1895 

*Mexico  1895 

102  Bath  Street  1895 

*100  Bath  Street  1895 

c/o  B.C.  Pharmacal  Co.,  Ltd., 

329  Railway  Street,  Van¬ 
couver,  B.C.  1897 

Greenhill,  Birkby,  Huddersfield  1897 


6 

No. 

on  the 

RoU. 

2745 

2795 

2826 

2834 

2835 

2836 

2837 

2843 

2887 

2894 

2911 

2912 

2918 

2919 

2930 

2949 

2951 

2992 

3009 

3033 

3034 

3042 

3044 

3066 

3068 

3070 

3097 

4003 

4024 

4029 

4032 

4057 

4076 

4092 

4104 

4105 

2410 

2606 

2619 

2704 

2710 

2740 

2762 

2768 

2808 

2827 


ROLL  OF  iMEMBERS. 


Year 


Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

Caldwell,  John,  jun. 

W 

2  Alexandra  Park  Gardens,  Dennis- 
tbun 

1897 

Caldwell,  Jas.  T. 

W 

5  Ormonde  Mount,  Muirend, 
Glasgow 

1900 

Campbell,  Jas.  C. 

W 

137  Ingram  Street 

1902 

Couper,  David 

W 

Bridgend  Works,  Dairy,  Ayrshire 

1903 

Coiiper,  Thomas 

w 

21  Glassford  Street 

1903 

Couper,  William  H. 

w 

21  Glassford  Street 

1903 

Couper,  Jno.  Graham,  jun.,  C.A. 

W 

21  Glassford  Street 

1903 

Crabb,  David 

w 

*36  North  Frederick  Street 

1903 

Craig,  Arch.  M. 

w 

*15  Queen  Street 

1904 

Campbell,  Adair 

w 

137  Ingram  Street 

1904 

Craig,  A.  Blackburn 

w 

116  St.  Vincent  Street 

1905 

Carmichael,  Rev.  Wm. 

w 

U.F.  Manse,  Longside,  Aberdeenshire  1905 

Cooke,  David 

w 

*218  Great  Western  Road 

1905 

Cooke,  James 

w 

*98  Gardner  Road,  Prestwich,  near 
Manchester 

1905 

Connell,  John 

w 

77  Fotheringay  Road 

1905 

Copland,  Jas.  M'Kcnzie 

Tailor 

*57  Hope  Street 

1905 

Christie,  John  A. 

W 

Union  Bank  of  Scotland,  Limited, 
Ingram  Street 

1905 

Carruthers,  Jas. 

W 

73  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1908 

Clavering,  John  M. 

W 

41  St.  Vincent  Place 

1908 

Clarke,  Robt. 

Tailor 

81  St.  Vincent  Street 

1910 

Clarke,  W.  Stobo 

Tailor 

81  St.  Vincent  Street 

1910 

Crawford,  Jas.  S. 

W 

16  Newton  Street,  Manchester 

1910 

Cochrane,  Samuel  P. 

W 

170  Ingram  Street 

1910 

Crawford,  Thos. 

W 

2  Lochview  Terrace,  Gartcosh 

1912 

Cook,  Robt.  Templeton 

W 

61  Carolside  Avenue,  Clarkston 

1912 

Cook,  Wm.  R. 

W 

Wester  Overtoun  House,  Strathaven  1912 

Clugston,  James 

W 

Gladholm,  Uddingston,  W. 

1915 

Christie,  Wm.  O. 

W 

1 1  Lomond  Street,  Helensburgh 

1915 

Clark,  Alexander  Stewart 

w 

513  Victoria  Road,  Crosshill 

1917 

Campbell,  William  H. 

Hammer 

31  St.  Vincent  Place 

1917 

Connell,  Buchanan 

W 

12  Platts  Lane,  Hampstead,  Lon¬ 
don,  N.W.  3 

1917 

Connell,  James 

W 

77  Fotheringay  Road 

1919 

Campbell,  James  H.  A. 

W 

Tillichewan  Castle,  Balloch 

1919 

Cochrane,  Gordon 

W 

105  West  George  Street 

1920 

Cargill,  D.  W.  T. 

W 

163  Hope  Street 

1920 

Cossar,  Dr.  George  C. 

W 

Hacienda,  Urco,  Calca,  Peru 

1920 

Duncan,  Robert 

Hammer 

Whitefield  Works,  Govan 

1878 

Drysdale,  James  T. 

W 

280  Bath  Street 

1887 

Dregliorn,  David 

Mason 

Greenwood,  Nithsdale  Drive,  Pollok- 

shields  1 888 

Downie,  Robert 

W 

Birkenshaw,  Hamilton  Drive,  Cam- 
buslang 

1895 

Downie,  James  M. 

W 

6  Lilybank  Gardens,  Glasgow 

1895 

Docherty,  James 

W 

c/o  A.  C.  Anderson,  3  Walker 
Street,  Paisley 

1897 

Downie,  John  S.,  M.A.,  F.E.I.S. 

W 

Tofts,  Newton-Mearns 

1899 

Danskin,  William  R. 

W 

33  Fotheringay  Road,  Glasgow 

1899 

Danskin,  John  A. 

W 

*Ardgowan,  Broadloan,  Renfrew 

1901 

Dow,  John  Graham 

W 

9  Bell  Street 

1902 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2829 

2841 

2869 

2885 

2886 

2905 

2906 

2921 

2974 

2975 

2998 

3041 

3084 

4007 

4031 

4078 

4085 

4093 

4110 

4114 

4115 

4120 

4121 

2408 

2420 

2580 

2656 

2657 

2788 

3005 

3028 

4054 

4094 

4118 

4122 

2240 

2299 

2482 

2536 

2547 

2604 

2637 

2785 

2815 

2821 

2874 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


7 


Namf. 

Craft. 

Dickson,  William  kl. 

W 

Dunn,  Bannatyne 

W 

Dunn,  James  D. 

W 

Dunn,  John 

Hammer 

Dick,  Robt. 

W 

Docherty,  And. 

W 

Downie,  Dr.  Walker 

W 

Downie,  Robert,  jun. 

W 

Dawson,  John 

W 

Dawson,  Wilson 

W 

Donaldson,  N.  M. 

W 

Douglas,  John  P. 

Cooper 

Dunn,  H.  R. 

Hammer 

Drummond,  John 

Wright 

Dow,  Walter  G. 

W 

Dalziel,  William 

W 

Douglas,  John  K. 

Cooper 

Dickson,  Wm.  M. 

W 

Downie,  Fred  Plabler,  O.B.E., 

,  B.Sc.  W 

Davidson,  John 

W 

Davidson,  Arthur 

W 

Drysdale,  William 

W 

Drysdale,  J.  W.  W. 

W 

Easton,  John  M. 

W 

Easton,  Frederick  J. 

W 

Eason,  Robert 

W 

Easton,  William  C.,  B.Sc. 

w 

Easton,  Duncan  T. 

w 

Eadie,  John 

w 

Edmiston,  Richard,  jun. 

w 

Eekhout,  A.  A. 

w 

Evans,  W.  M. 

w 

Easton,  Ian  C. 

w 

Easton,  Robert  D. 

w 

Erskine,  J.  E. 

w 

Fleming,  Michael  W. 

w 

Findlay,  James 

w 

Ferguson,  Alexander 

Barber 

Frew,  James 

W 

Finlay  son,  Wm. 

W 

Fleming,  E.  B. 

W 

Fleming,  William 

W 

Frame,  Wm. 

W 

Fraser,  John 

W 

Filshill,  Jas. 

W 

Forrest,  Thos.,  Lieut. -Col.,  M.B.,  C.M.  W 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

Glenroy  House,  Princes  Town, 

Trinidad  ,  1902 

44  Athole  Gardens,  Hillhead  1903 

31  St.  Vincent  Place  1903 

276  Abercromby  Street  1904 

19  Waterloo  Street  1904 

c/o  Scottish  Clerks’  Association, 

81  St.  George’s  Place  1904 

4  Woodside  Crescent  1904 

Birkenshaw,  Hamilton  Drive, 

Cambuslang  1905 

c/o  W.  Graham,  jun.,  &  Co.,  7  Rua 

da  Princeza,  Lisbon  1907 

49  Duncan  Avenue,  Scotstoun  1907 

53  Cochrane  Street  1908 

Deerswood,  Ifield,  Susse.x  1910 

17  Westercraigs,  Dennistoun  1914 

180  Abercromby  Street  1915 

Edgehill,  Horselethill  Road  1917 

381  Argyle  Street  1919 

Deerswood,  Iheld,  Sussex  1919 

26  Dixon  Avenue,  Govanhill  1920 

Armstrong  College,  Newcastle-on- 

Tyne  1920 

22  Argyle  Street  1920 

22  Argyle  Street  1920 

2  La  Belle  Place,  Glasgow  1920 

16  Whittinghame  Drive  1920 

Tordarroch,  Helensburgh  1878 

London  1878 

*674  Gallowgate  1885 

149  West  George  Street  1893 

Easterhill,  Helensburgh  1893 

12  Bridge  Street  1900 

7  West  Nile  Street  1908 

82  Gordon  Street  1909 

Kingarth,  Peveril  Avenue,  Burnside  1919 
11  Kirklee  Road,  W.  1920 

11  Kirklee  Road,  W.  1920 

140  Hope  Street  1920 

*97  Montrose  Street  1870 

4  Lansdowne  Crescent  1871 

18  Newton  Street,  Charing  Cross, 

Glasgow  1881 

*15  Royal  Terrace,  Crosshill  1884 

10  Southcoates  Avenue,  Hull  1885 

*Springfield  Works,  Dahnuir  1887 

138  Duke  Street  1890 

*5  Walmer  Terrace  1900 

177  Reid  Street,  Bridgeton  1902 

420  Gallowgate  1902 

1  Moray  Place,  Glasgow  1903 


C 


8 

No. 

ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

2876 

Forrest,  James  Dick 

W 

112  Dixon  Avenue 

1903 

2877 

Forrest,  R.  W.,  M.B.,  C.M. 

W 

Elmwood,  40  Queen  Mary  Avenue 

1903 

2883 

Fyfe,  Rev.  Alex.,  M.A. 

W 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant 

1904 

2884 

Fyfe,  Henry  H. 

W 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant 

1904 

2933 

Fleming,  John 

w 

138  Duke  Street 

1905 

2942 

Fyfe,  Walter  W. 

w 

16  Montgomerie  Quadrant 

1905 

3001 

Fleming,  Wm.  E. 

w 

164  Springfield  Road 

1908 

3023 

Fulton,  James 

Cordiner 

Shan  ter,  40  Glencairn  Drive,  Pollok- 
shields 

1909 

3024 

Fulton,  Angus  M. 

Cordiner 

118  Queen  Street 

1909 

3025 

Fulton,  Charles, 

W 

Duntrune,  Meiklebriggs,  Paisley 

1909 

3074 

Forbes,  Matthew  S. 

W 

19  Darnley  Gardens,  Pollokshields 

1913 

3075 

Forrest,  John,  M.B.,  Ch.  B 

Bonnetmaker  Major,  Indian  Medical  Service, 
Madras,  India 

1913 

3082 

Forrest,  Geo.  H. 

Bonnetmaker 

Public  Works  Dept.,  Central 
Province,  India 

1914 

4020 

Faulds,  Wm.  C. 

Wright 

133  Great  Hamilton  Street 

1916 

4021 

Ferguson,  David  H. 

W 

Messrs.  Wm.  Anderson  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
12  Princes  Square 

1916 

4106 

Fraser,  Thomas  D. 

W 

29  Keir  Street,  Pollokshields 

1920 

2404 

Grierson,  Jas. 

W 

*1132  Cathcart  Road,  Mount 
Florida 

1877 

2531 

Gibson,  George 

W 

17  Victoria  Crescent 

1884 

2573 

Glenarthur,  Lord,  of  Carlung 

W 

78  Queen  Street 

1885 

2642 

Gibb,  Andrew 

Wright 

*Garthland,  Westcombe  Park  Road, 
Blackheath,  London,  S.E. 

1891 

2666 

Gartshore,  Alex. 

W 

43  Virginia  Street 

1893 

2695 

Gardiner,  Wm. 

W 

Miramar,  Marlborough  Road, 
Bournemouth 

1895 

2699 

Graham,  David  J. 

W 

Criagmore,  Stoughton  Drive, 
North,  Leicester 

1895 

2707 

Gemmell,  John 

W 

20  Argyle  Street,  Rothesay 

1895 

2743 

Gray,  Wm. 

w 

44  Maxwell  Drive 

1897 

2809 

Gourlay,  Jas. 

w 

1 1  Crown  Gardens,  Dowanhill 

1901 

2810 

Gourlay,  John  W.,  C..‘\. 

w 

124  St.  Vincent  Street 

1901 

2879 

Galbraith,  Robt.  J. 

w 

2  Clayton  Terrace,  Dennistoun 

1904 

2880 

Galbraith,  Chas. 

w 

2  Clayton  Terrace,  Dennistoun 

1904 

2897 

Guthrie,  And.  J. 

w 

Western  Club 

1904 

2908 

Gourlay,  Robt.  C. 

w 

Caledonian  EngineWorks,  Paisley 

1905 

2909 

Gourlay,  Robt.  J. 

w 

Bank  of  Scotland,  Greenock 

1905 

2928 

Graham,  Arthur  H. 

w 

90  Mitchell  Street 

1905 

2944 

Gray,  Alex.  S.  T. 

w 

33  Hamilton  Drive,  Pollokshields 

1905 

2966 

Greenlees,  Thos.,  jun. 

w 

3  South  Portland  Street 

1906 

2990 

Graham,  John 

w 

29  Somerville  Drive,  Mount  Florida 

1908 

3090 

Gardner,  Samuel 

w 

59  Bellwood  Street,  Langside 

1915 

4005 

Gale,  Robert,  D.S.O. 

w 

*R.A.M.C.  Headquarters,  4th  Army 
Corps 

1915 

4008 

Graham,  John 

w 

27  Onslow  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1915 

4009 

Graham,  Archd. 

w 

27  Onslow  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1915 

4055 

Graham,  R.  W.  P. 

w 

Paragon  Works,  Canning  Town, 
London,  E  16 

1919 

4090 

Gemmell,  Wm. 

w 

8  Argyle  Terrace,  Rothesay 

1919 

ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


9 


No. 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

4109 

Garvie,  Alexander 

w 

7  Kirkburn  Avenue,  Cambuslang 

1920 

4111 

Gourlay,  R.  D. 

w 

6  Windsor  Quadrant,  Kelvinside 

1920 

2183 

Henry,  E.  W. 

M 

*The  City  Liberal  Club,  Wallbrook, 
London,  E.C. 

1862 

2313 

Hunter,  John 

W 

54  London  Road,  Kilmarnock 

1872 

2483 

Henderson,  John 

Barber 

34  Dunearn  Street 

1881 

2681 

Houston,  Wm. 

W 

Royal  Exchange  Buildings 

1894 

2687 

Holmes,  A.  L. 

W 

13  John  Street 

1894 

2723 

Hewat,  John 

W 

Ashleigh,  8  Mossgiel  Road,  New- 
lands 

1895 

2725 

Hewat,  Henry  A. 

W 

Oakley  Drive,  Miiirend,  Glasgow 

1895 

2769 

Houston,  John  S. 

W 

Royal  Exchange  Buildings 

1899 

2791 

Harvey.  Win.  A.,  C.A. 

W 

81  Mitchell  Street 

1900 

2792 

Harvey,  Geo.  T. 

W 

170  Hope  Street 

1900 

2793 

Harvey,  Wilson 

W 

Westdene,  Kilmacolm 

1900 

2796 

Hamilton,  Robert 

W 

Rossarden,  Glengarnock 

1901 

2804 

Houston,  Jas.  E. 

W 

45  Camphill  Street,  Langside 

1901 

2904 

Headrick,  Robt. 

W 

21  Bothwell  Street 

1904 

2935 

Hirst,  Ered.  W. 

W 

*Mountjoy  Road,  Huddersfield 

1905 

2947 

Holmes,  Jas.  A. 

w 

13  John  Street 

1905 

2962 

Hutton,  W.  K.,  M.D. 

w 

2  Westbourne  Gardens 

1906 

2965 

Hislop,  Chas.  A. 

w 

Devon  vale,  Tillicoultry 

1906 

2967 

Hamilton,  Andrew  P. 

w 

100  West  Regent  Street 

1906 

2968 

Hamilton,  John 

w 

*1  North  Park  Terrace,  Glasgow 

1906 

2979 

Hendry,  Thos.  L. 

w 

*34  West  George  Street 

1907 

3022 

Hetheruigton,  Robt. 

w 

19  St.  Vincent  Place 

1909 

3035 

Henderson,  John 

w 

14  Garrioch  Drive,  Kelvinside,  N. 

1910 

3056 

Hoey,  Samuel 

w 

347  Springburn  Road,  Glasgow 

1911 

3060 

Hoey,  Samuel,  jun. 

w 

347  Springburn  Road 

1912 

3081 

Hannah,  John 

w 

33  Hope  Street 

1914 

3099 

Hume,  Alex.  Williamson 

Barber 

31  Eaglesham  Street 

1915 

4002 

Hunter,  Wm. 

W 

110  Flemington  Street,  Springburn 

1915 

4033 

Hume,  Jas.  Howden 

Wright 

195  Scotland  Street 

1917 

4062 

Hope,  J.  M. 

Barber 

154  St.  Vincent  Street 

1919 

4086 

Houston,  Wm.  K. 

W 

6  Whittinghame  Drive,  Glasgow, 

w. 

1919 

2476 

Inglis,  Lawrence  R.  \ 

W 

28  Ormonde  Park,  Cathcart 

1881 

2820 

Innes,  Gilbert 

W 

16  Kirklee  Road,  Kelvinside 

1902 

3002 

Innes,  Gilbert  James 

W 

16  Kirklee  Road,  Kelvinside 

1908 

3077 

Innes,  John  R. 

W 

16  Kirklee  Road,  Kelvinside 

1914 

2717 

Johnston,  John  D. 

W 

*6  Fitzroy  Place,  Sauchiehall  Street  1895 

2718 

Johnston,  Wm. 

W 

142  St.  Vincent  Street 

1895 

2421 

Knox,  Robert  A. 

W 

5  Park  Quadrant 

1878 

2590 

Knox,  Robert  M. 

W 

47  Crownpoint  Road,  Mile  End 

1886 

2591 

Knox,  John  S. 

W 

2  Duchal  Terrace,  Kilmacolm 

1886 

2615 

Kidston,  James  B. 

Barber 

50  West  Regent  Street 

1888 

2624 

Kvd,  Alexander 

W 

9  Woodlands,  Langside 

1888 

2643 

Kerr,  John  E. 

Skinner 

Harviestoun  Castle,  Dollar 

1891 

lU 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2738 

2753 

2787 

2832 

2868 

2899 

2900 

2922 

3011 

3012 

3013 

3052 

3069 

4006 

4066 

4079 

4113 

2535 

2549 

2584 

2663 

2737 

2751 

2773 

2789 

2860 

2957 

2983 

3062 

3078 

3079 

3088 

4001 

4016 

4045 

4061 

4087 

2215 

2302 

2348 

2405 

2496 

2554 

2588 

2600 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS, 


Name.  Craft, 

Kirkpatrick,  Duncan  T.  W 

Kirkpatrick,  Hubert  V.  W 

Kidd,  Alex.  Tailor 

Kay,  Arthur  W 

Kidd,  Henry  A.  W 

Knox,  John,  jun.  W 

Knox,  Wm.  W 

Kinghorn,  John  P.  Wright 

Kilpatrick,  Leslie  C.  Wright 

Kilpatrick,  D.  Ross,  M.D.  W 

Kilpatrick,  Fraser  B.  W 

Kennedy,  Jos.  M.  W 

Kinghorn,  A.  F.  W 

Kyle,  Thomas  W 

Kidd,  John  A.  W 

Kidd,  Alex.  A.  W 

Kidd,  R.  M.  H.  W 


Legate,  James  Merchant 

Laird,  James  C.  G.  Barber 

Laughland,  James  W 

Logan,  David  W 

Lumsden,  Harry,  M.A.,  LL.B.  W 

Lyle,  John  W 

Legate,  Alex.  B.  S.  W 

Laird,  Alex.  W 

Lyle,  John  E.  W 

Lindsay,  Jas.  W 

Lambie,  W.  A.  W 

Lamb,  W.  Lindsay  W 

Lyle,  J.  A.  W 

Lyle,  Geo.,  jun.  W 

Lorimer,  Wrn.,  jun.  Hammer 

Lane,  Andw.,  jun.  W 

Liddell,  Wm.  G.  W 

Lowndes,  Eric  Barber 

Lottimcr,  A.  A.  W 

Lyle,  W.  M.  W 

Miller,  Alex.  W 

Muir,  Robert  W 

Mair,  Charles  S.  W 

Minnoch,  Wm.  H.  W 

Mitchell,  John  M‘P.  W 

Mann,  James  W 

Munsie,  Robert  G.  W 

Mason,  Sir  Thomas,  D.L.  Mason 


Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

179  West  George  Street  1896 

Lagbuie,  Shandon,  Dumbarton¬ 
shire  1898 

101  Mitchell  Street  1900 

78  Queen  Street  1903 

386  Byres  Road  1903 

Silsden,  Yorks.  1904 

Silsden,  Yorks.  1904 

90  Mitchell  Street  1905 

48  North  Hanover  Street  1909 

2  Den  Crescent,  Teignmouth,  South 

Devon  1909 

42  May  Street,  New  Rochelle,  New 

York,  U.S.A.  1909 

Barrowfield  Potteries,  Bridgeton  1911 
90  Mitchell  Street  1912 

131  Dalmarnock  Road  1915 

25  Berkeley  Terrace,  W.  1919 

7  Ben  tin  ck  Street  1919 

c/o  Steele  Bros.,  Box  132  Rangoon  1920 

95  Peel  Street,  Bridgeton  1884 

c/o  M'Garvie,  51  Albert  Drive, 

Queen’s  Park  1885 

14  Montrose  Street  1885 

93  Glasgow  Road,  Baillieston  1893 

105  West  George  Street  1896 

10  Fordneuk  Street  1897 

95  Peel  Street,  Bridgeton  1899 

Orcadia  14  Buchanan  Drive, 

Rutherglen  1900 

10  Fordneuk  Street  1903 

23  Roslea  Drive,  Dennistoun  1906 

111  French  Street,  Bridgeton  1907 

25  Kelvinside  Terrace,  S.  1912 

2  Kirklee  Road  1914 

104  Kirkintilloch  Road,  Bishop- 

briggs  1914 

20  Mirrlees  Drive,  Kelvinside,  1915 

50  Gordon  Street  1915 

3  Royal  Exchange  Square  1916 

c/o  A.  W.  Hume,  14  Onslow  Drive  1918 
1 13  St.  George’s  Road  1919 

149  St.  Vincent  Street  1919 

3  Windsor  Quadrant,  Kelvinside  1865 
* London  1872 

Tigh-na-mara,  Bone,  Algeria  ,  1875 

43  Eglinton  Road,  Dublin  1878 

36  Balgreen  Road,  Murrayfield, 

Edinburgh  1882 

Castle  Craig,  Dolphin  ton  1885 

2  Clifton  Street  1885 

Polmadie,  Glasgow  1886 


No. 

on  the 

RoU. 

2655 

2682 

2726 

2746 

2761 

2783 

2790 

2845 

2850 

2902 

2917 

2920 

2969 

2984 

2994 

2995 

2996 

3031 

3032 

3037 

3057 

3064 

4014 

4028 

4036 

4037 

4044 

4088 

4089 

2433 

2489 

2490 

2492 

2500 

2530 

2568 

2608 

2625 

2641 

2644 

2645 

2654 

2661 

2680 

2697 

2698 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


11 


Name. 

Craft. 

klorrice,  James 

W 

Mitchell,  Wm. 

w 

Millen,  James  A. 

w 

Milne,  James 

W 

Mitchell,  James  T. 

Cordiner 

Monro,  Thos.  K.,  M.A.,  M.D. 

W 

Marshall,  David 

W 

Mason,  Robt.  W. 

Jtlason 

Manson,  Wm.  Hislop,  IM.A.,  M.D. 

W 

Mowat,  Joseph  G. 

Hammer 

Morton,  David  S. 

W 

Marshall,  George  B. 

W 

Miller,  Wm. 

W 

Morton,  Jas.  P. 

W 

IMurray,  Robt. 

W 

Murray,  Chas  M. 

W 

Murray,  J.  T. 

W 

Morgan,  Henry 

W 

Manson,  Jas.  W. 

W 

Miller,  Alex.,  jun. 

W 

Mitchell,  Neil  C. 

Cordiner 

Mitchell,  D.  H. 

Maltman 

Mitchell,  Alex., 

W 

Murdoch,  Thos.  C. 

Mason 

Murray,  Robert 

W 

Murray,  John  D. 

W 

IMorton,  James  Albany 

Merchant 

Morton,  John  Ernest 

W 

Morton,  Albany  Nevtll 

W 

MacLean,  Chas.  J. 

W 

M’Connell,  Robert 

W 

M‘ Connell,  Thomas 

W 

M‘ Connell,  John 

W 

M'Dougall,  Robert 

W 

Macpherson,  James  G. 

W 

Macfarlane,  Thomas 

W 

M'Lintock,  Walter 

W 

M'Queen,  Wm. 

W 

M’Ewan,  Robt.  D. 

W 

M'Culloch,  John  L. 

W 

M'Kechnie,  James 

W 

M'Lean,  John  Allan 

Hammer 

Macfie,  Wm. 

W 

M'Culloch,  John 

W 

M'NisU,  Geo.  S. 

W 

M'Nish,  John  S. 

W 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

*104  Cecil  Street,  Manchester  1892 

c/o  Mrs.  E.  Laverty,  10  M'Dougall 

Street,  Pollokshaws  1894 

122  West  Campbell  Street  1895 

Hallhill,  Kinneff,  Bervie,  Kin¬ 
cardineshire  1897 

137  Ingram  Street  1898 

12  Somerset  Place  1899 

Horrockses,  Crewdson  &  Co.,  Ltd., 

107  Piccadilly,  Manchester  1900 

Craigiehall,  Bellahouston  1903 

17  Royal  Terrace,  Glasgow,  W.  1903 

*34  Robertson  Street  1904 

309  Bobbie’s  Loan  1905 

140  Queen’s  Drive,  Crosshill  1905 

186  Trongate,  Glasgow  1906 

Renfield  Weaving  Factory,  Pollok¬ 
shaws  1907 

21  Park  Street,  Kinning  Park  1908 

63  Meadowpark  Street,  Dennistoun  1908 

Stravona,  Forfar  Avenue,  Cardonald  1908 
25  St.  Vincent  Place  1910 

Avenue  Villa,  Mansion  Flousc  Road, 

Langside  1910 

*4  West  Regent  Street  1910 

1 1  West  Nile  Street  1911 

11  West  Nile  Street  1912 

142  St.  Vincent  Street  1916 

91  Maxwell  Road  1917 

64  Lymbum  Street,  Glasgow  1917 

64  Lymbui'n  Street,  Glasgow  1917 

73  Robertson  Street  1918 

3  Crompton  Avenue,  Cathcart  1919 

3  Crompton  Avenue,  Cathcart  1919 


3  Grosvenor  Crescent  1879 

A  ran  view,  Bay  Road,  Fairlie  1882 

*20  Windsor  Terrace  1882 

c/o  Mrs.  Sutherland,  478  New  City 

Road  1882 

*138  West  Regent  Street  1883 

62  Queen  Street  1884 

39  Miller  Street  1885 

6  Firhill  Street,  Queen’s  Cross, 

Glasgow  1887 

8  Firpark  Terrace,  Dennistoun  1888 

9  Eglinton  Drive  1891 

15  Castle  Street  1891 

85  Bellgrove  Street,  Dennistoun  1891 
Havanna,  Cuba  1892 

26  Bishop  Street,  Rothesay  1893 

*421  Gallowgate  1894 

55  Washington  Street  1895 

55  Washington  Street  1895 


D 


•12 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2702 

2703 

2716 

2719 

2736 

2742 

2749 

2770 

2774 

2779 

3780 

2805 

2806 

2813 

2814 

2857 

2867 

2881 

2913 

2914 

2923 

2938 

2945 

2946 

2948 

2960 

2961 

2988 

2993 

3006 

3018 

3053 

3071 

3098 

4019 

4023 

4025 

4052 

4053 

4095 

4097 

4098 

4119 

2435 

2454 

2721 

2882 

3073 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


Name. 

Craft. 

Maclay,  The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Jos.  P., 

w 

Bart. 

Maclay,  Wm.  P. 

w 

M'Dougall,  Wm. 

w 

Maclay,  Wm. 

Baker 

M'Culloch,  David  W. 

W 

M'Dougall.  Allan 

W 

MacNaughton,  Rev.  Geo.  F.  A. 

W 

Macalister,  Jas. 

W 

M'Kenzie,  John 

W 

MacDougall,  Jas. 

W 

MacLeod,  Sir  Fred.  L.,  K.B.E. 

W 

M'Kenzie,  John,  jun. 

W 

Maepherson,  Thomas  W. 

W 

Maclay,  R.  M.,  C.A. 

W 

MacLean,  William 

W 

MacLean,  Arch.  Campbell  Holms, 

W 

Major,  C.B.E. 

M'Kay,  George  H. 

W 

Mackinlay,  Chas.  A. 

W 

Maclay,  John  C. 

Baker 

Maclay,  Kenneth 

Baker 

Macalister,  David  R. 

W 

Maclay,  Arthur  A. 

Baker 

Maclcod,  D.  Macfarlane 

.  w 

Macnair,  Donald  F. 

W 

M'Ewan,  Jas.  W. 

W 

M'Skimming,  Jas. 

W 

M'Skimming,  C.  S. 

W 

Macfarlane,  Jas.  G. 

W 

M'Kenzie,  Alex. 

W 

M'Nicol,  Robt.  S. 

Hammer 

M'Crone,  Edward 

W 

M'Farlane,  W.  S. 

W 

M'Intyre,  J.  Gordon 

Cooper 

M'Cowan,  David 

W 

M'Ewan,  Duncan  W. 

W 

Macfarlane,  William 

W 

M'lnnes,  R.  G. 

W 

Mackay,  John  C. 

W 

M'Crackcn,  William 

W 

Macfarlane,  Wm.  M.  F. 

Barber 

IMacdonald,  James 

W 

M'Donald,  William  D. 

W 

M'Crackcn,  James  O. 

W 

Ncwlands,  James 

W 

Newstead,  Thomas 

W 

Noble,  Walter  D. 

W 

Newlands,  Geo.  F.,  LL.B, 

W 

Newton,  Robt. 

Masc 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

21  Bothwell  Street  1895 

104  Hydepark  Street  1895 

*18  Barrington  Drive  1895 

Thorn  wood,  155  Camphill  Avenue, 

Langside  1895 

*66  Evelyn  Street,  Dennistoun  1896 

*  149  West  George  Street  1897 

The  Manse,  Carsphairn  1897 

49  Craigmillar  Road,  Langside  1899 

*103  Burnside  Street  1899 

*25  Thornwood  Drive,  Partick,  W.  1899 
142  St.  Vincent  Street  1899 

*103  Burnside  Street  1901 

62  Queen  Street  1901 

209  West  George  Street  1901 

21  West  George  Street  1901 

Glencorse,  Milton  Bridge,  Mid¬ 
lothian  1903 

840  Argyle  Street  1903 

309  Dobbie's  Loan  1904 

155  Camphill  Avenue  1904 

11  Windsor  Quadrant,  Kirklee  1905 

106  Cowcaddens  Street  1905 

Thornwood  Hall,  Langside  1905 

Dechmont,  46  Wellshot  Drive, 

Cambuslang  1905 

41  St.  Vincent  Place  1905 

9  Eglinton  Drive,  Glasgow  1905 

*6  Hamilton  Drive,  Pollokshields  1906 
*6  Hamilton  Drive,  Pollokshields  1906 
39  Miller  Street  1907 

49  Cadogan  Street  1908 

48  North  Hakiover  Street  1908 

82  Mitchell  Street  1909 

1 18  Queen  Street  1911 

Sorn  Castle,  Mauchline  1913 

9  Park  Circus  Place  1915 

9  Eglinton  Drive  1916 

51  Cramond  Street,  Polmadie  1916 

163  Hope  Street,  Glasgow  1917 

179  Cowcaddens  1918 

5  Princes  Square,  Buchanan  Street  1919 
Woodview,  Bridge  of  Allan  1920 

53  Bothwell  Street  1920 

Cathdale,  34  Maryland  Drive, 

Cardonald  1920 

30  Lilybank  Gardens,  Glasgow  1920 


Rio,  Brazil  1879 

Dilston,  Bertrohill,  Shettleston  1880 

21  Glassford  Street  1895 

135  St  Vincent  Street  1904 

52  St  Enoch  Square  1913 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS.  13 


So. 

Year 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Roll. 

Entry. 

2579 

O’Mav,  Thomas 

W 

14  Circus  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1885 

2669 

Orr,  Wm.  Yuille 

w 

Fraserton,  27  Crichton  Road, 

Craigmore,  Rothesay 

1893 

2833 

Ogilvie,  Herbert 

w 

78  Queen  Street 

1903 

2889 

Ogilvie,  Cecil 

w 

78  Queen  Street 

1904 

2989 

Orr,  John  F. 

w 

184  West  Regent  Street 

1908 

4030 

O’May,  Thos.,  jun. 

w 

14  Circus  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1917 

4038 

O’May,  Daniel 

w 

18  Avenue  Road,  Lemington 

1917 

2301 

Paterson,  Wm.  Scott 

w 

244  Great  Western  Road 

1872 

2383 

Pollock.  Rev.  John 

w 

7  Glandore  Park,  Belfast 

1877 

2468 

Paterson,  Robt.  G. 

w 

East  Gable,  Helensburgh 

1881 

2526 

Paterson,  Jas.  Cowan,  C.A. 

w 

121  St  Vincent  Street 

1884 

2593 

Paul,  Thomas  A. 

w 

Dunarden,  Helensburgh 

1885 

2612 

Paterson,  Wm.  M. 

w 

*27  Baskerville  Road,  Wandsworth 

Common,  London,  S.W. 

1888 

2631 

Paterson,  Alexander  N.,  M..\., 

A.R.S.A.,  R.S.W. 

w 

266  St.  Vincent  Street 

1890 

2662 

Place,  James 

Cordiner 

23  Cranworth  Street,  Hillhcad 

1893 

2688 

Pomphrey,  Geo.  G. 

W 

137  Ingram  Street 

1894 

2767 

Peebles,  Wm. 

W 

33  M’Intosh  Street,  Dennistoun 

1899 

2890 

Parker,  James  H.,  C.A. 

W 

156  St.  Vincent  Street 

1904 

3001 

Paterson,  R.  S. 

W 

c/o  Leisler,  Bock  &  Co.,  55  West 

Regent  Street 

1907 

3021 

Pettigrew,  Sir  A.  H. 

Bonnetmaker 

146  Argyle  Street 

1909 

3048 

Pettigrew,  J  ohn  H . 

Bonnetmaker 

191  Sauchiehall  Street 

1911 

4047 

Place,  Jas.  Douglas 

W 

23  Cranworth  Street,  Hillhcad 

1918 

4051 

Pomphrey,  Fred 

W 

140  Hope  Street 

1918 

4058 

Pomphrey,  Charles 

W 

Duncan  Bros.  &  Co.,  101  Clive 

Street,  Calcutta 

1919 

4069 

Patrick,  John 

W 

Huelva,  Clairemont  Avenue,  Giff- 

nock 

1919 

4108 

Porteous,  James  R. 

W 

4  Mannering  Teri'ace,  Shawlands 

1920 

2320 

Robb,  William 

W 

*Ailsa  Tower,  Dunoon 

1873 

2401 

Rae,  William 

W 

818  New'  City  Road 

1878 

2586 

Robertson,  John 

W 

Trearne,  Wellshot  Drive, 

Cambuslang 

1884 

2609 

Ramsay,  William  S. 

W 

1  Cecil  Street,  Ibrox 

1887 

2651 

Russell,  William 

W 

Woodend,  14  Lethington  Avenue, 

Langside 

1892 

2690 

Reid,  Robert  A. 

W 

125  Buchanan  Street 

1895 

2696 

Robertson,  James 

W 

97  Wellington  Street 

1895 

2705 

Rae,  John  B. 

W 

*The  Treasury,  Pretoria,  South 

Africa 

1895 

2727 

Robertson,  Andrew 

W 

Trearne  Cottage,  Wellshothill, 

Cambuslang 

1895 

2752 

Reid,  Henry  A. 

W 

121  West  George  Street 

1898 

2811 

Reid,  A.  Roger 

Wright 

1  Derby  Crescent,  Kelvinside 

1901 

2812 

Reid,  Robert  A.  M. 

Wright 

5  Montgomerie  Drive,  Kelvinside 

1901 

2831 

Reid,  Sir  John,  J.P.,  D.L. 

Hammer 

North  British  Locomotive  Co.,  Ltd., 

Flemington  Street,  Springburn 

1903 

2842 

Rew,  Angus 

W 

2  Wellfield  Terrace,  Springburn 

1903 

2848 

Ritchie,  Wm. 

W 

137  Stockwell  Street 

1903 

14 

No. 

on  the 

Roll. 

2892 

2893 

2915 

2925 

2952 

3016 

3019 

3043 

3093 

3094 

3095 

3096 

4096 

4099 

4100 

2274 

2329 

2373 

2378 

2382 

2395 

2416 

2485 

2520 

2525 

2546 

2558 

2563 

2564 

2577 

2613 

2332 

2633 

2634 

2653 

2691 

2692 

2720 

2735 

2747 

2755 

2756 

2757 

2776 

2786 

2819 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


Name. 

Craft. 

Reid,  Geo.  L. 

w 

Reid,  Hugh  Y. 

w 

Reid,  Rev.  Edward  T.  S. 

W 

Russell,  James 

W 

Reid,  And.  T.,  D.L. 

Hammer 

Robertson,  Stephen,  jun. 

W 

Robertson,  Wm. 

Hammer 

Robb,  John 

W 

Reid,  Ian  Macpherson 

W 

Reid,  Flenry  Edward 

W 

Reid,  Eric  Chas.  Scott 

W 

Reid,  Colin  Scott 

W 

Robb,  John  George 

W 

Ronald,  Thomas 

W 

Ross,  John 

Tailor 

Stewart,  John  Gilchrist 

W 

Stobo,  David 

W 

Scott,  Innes  W. 

W 

Steven,  Alex.  F. 

W 

Smith,  William 

W 

Steven,  Andrew 

Wright 

Seton,  William  C. 

W 

Smith,  William,  jun. 

W 

Sloan,  James 

Merchant 

Sloan,  George 

W 

Stewart,  Ninian  B. 

W 

Smith,  William  A. 

W 

Stout,  John  S. 

Cordiner 

Service,  Andrew  G. 

Gardener 

Sloan,  James  R. 

W 

Speirs,  Archibald 

W 

Stewart,  James  B. 

W 

Stewart,  William  H. 

W 

Stewart,  John  L. 

W 

Sutherland,  George 

W 

Smith,  John  B. 

W 

Smith,  Alex.  D. 

W 

Service,  William  S. 

Gardener 

Smith,  Robert  W. 

W 

Stirling,  Hugh  A. 

W 

Steven,  John  M. 

W 

Steven,  William  D. 

W 

Steven,  Peter  A.,  M.D. 

W 

Scott,  Thomas 

W 

Stockdale,  H.  F 

Barber 

Stewart,  R.  B. 

W 

Year 

Address.  of 

Entry. 

579  Old  Shettleston  Road, 

Shettleston  1904 

13  Victoria  Buildings,  Shettleston  1904 

994  Great  Western  Road  1905 

6  Springfield  Avenue,  Muswell 

Hill,  London  1905 

Hydepark  Locomotive  Works, 

Springburn  1905 

105  John  Street  1909 

45  West  Nile  Street  1909 

13  Shuttle  Street  1910 

7  Park  Terrace,  Glasgow  1915 

Ravelston ,  994  Great  Western  Road  1915 
Ravelston,  994  Great  Western  Road  1915 
Ravelston,  994  Great  Western  Road  1915 
4  King’s  Park,  Cathcart  1920 

40  St.  Enoch  Square  1920 

72  Ingram  Street  1920 

Hilda,  Balshagray  Avenue  1871 

53  Scott  Street,  Garnethill  1873 

*12  Princes  Terrace  1876 

43  Queen  Square,  Queen’s  Park  1876 

*1 19  Argyle  Street  1877 

3  Granville  Gardens,  Newcastle-on- 

Tyne  1877 

*283  High  Street  1878 

18  Berkeley  Terrace  1882 

*7  Royal  Bank  Place  1884 

53  Bothwell  Street  1884 

146  Argyle  Street  1885 

Taybank,  Helensburgh  1885 

c/o  Miss  Marshall,  93  North 

Frederick  Street  1885 

4  Jane  Street,  Blythswood  Square  1885 

Southfield,  Queen’s  Drive  1885 

74  Canning  Street  1888 

*96  Byres  Road  1890 

386  Byres  Road  1890 

*12  Waveiiey  Avenue,  Fairview, 

Dublin  1890 

39  Kersland  Terrace,  Glasgow  1892 

55  Cartvale  Road,  Langside  1895 

*96  Springfield  Avenue  1895 

208  St.  Vincent  Street  1895 

75  Bothwell  Street  1896 

100  West  Campbell  Street  1897 

181  St.  James’  Road  1898 

Curzon  Cottage,  Curzon  Avenue, 

Beaconsfield,  Bucks  1898 

Ripon  1898 

142  Queen  Street  1899 

Royal  Technical  College,  George 

Street  1900 

146  Argyle  Street  1902 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


15 


No. 

on  the 

Name. 

Craft. 

Roll. 

2839 

Suttie,  Robert 

W 

2853 

Smart,  A.  Wilson,  C.A. 

w 

2854 

Smart,  Lewis  A. 

w 

2916 

Shaw,  James 

w 

2972 

Stevenson,  J.  G. 

w 

2999 

Steele,  Chas. 

w 

3014 

Smith,  Jas. 

Hammer 

3026 

Sutherland,  Jas. 

W 

3040 

Simpson,  Geo.  S. 

W 

3049 

Sutherland,  Edwin 

W 

3045 

Stevenson,  SirD.  M.,  Bt.,  LL.D.., 

D.L.  Wright 

3054 

Speirs,  Archibald  L. 

Wright 

3080 

Selkirk,  David 

Wright 

3086 

Sturgeon,  John 

W 

3089 

Shedden,  Lewis,  C.B.E. 

W 

3092 

Speirs,  James 

W 

4010 

Stephen,  Arthur 

W 

4026 

Schefi,  Leo. 

W 

4034 

Stalker,  Douglas 

Barber 

4039 

Steven,  Robert  A. 

W 

4040 

Steven,  Norman  H. 

W 

4041 

Steven,  Charles  I.  S. 

W 

4042 

Steven,  Edwin  N. 

W 

4043 

Steven,  Arthur  IM. 

W 

4046 

Smith,  Adam  Clayton,  IM.C.,  C..^. 

W 

4059 

Scott,  William 

W 

4060 

Scott,  Thomas,  jun. 

W 

4063 

Sutherland,  G.  S. 

IMaltman 

4070 

Spreull,  James  M. 

W 

4072 

Swan,  James  B. 

W 

4107 

Sutherland,  John 

W 

4112 

Smith,  Jas.  Wylie 

W 

4123 

Shaw,  R.  W. 

W 

Address. 

10  Prince's  Square,  Buchanan  Street 

66  Bath  Street 

31  Budge  Row,  London,  E.C. 

68  Gordon  Street 
147  St.  Vincent  Street 
89  Leslie  Street,  Pollokshields 
21  Montgomerie  Drive 
300  Swanston  Street 
129  St.  Vincent  Street 
478  New  City  Road,  Glasgow 
12  Waterloo  Street 
Burtown,  Athy,  County  Kildare, 
Ireland 

Blantyre,  Nyasaland 
95  Minard  Road,  Crossmyloof 
Mossgiel,  Maxwell  Park 
116  St.  Vincent  Street 
Union  Bank  of  Scotland,  Charing 
Cross,  Glasgow 

36  The  Ridgeway,  Golders  Green, 
London,  N.W.  4 

73  Greenford  Avenue,  Hanwell, 
I.ondon,  W. 

43  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 
43  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 
43  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 
43  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 
43  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 
3  Broome  Street,  Port  of  Spain, 
Trinidad 

3  Earlspark  Avenue,  Newlands, 
Glasgow 

3  Earlspark  Avenue,  Newlands, 
Glasgow 

39  Kersland  Terrace 
Caledonian  Club,  St.  James’ 
Square,  London,  S.W.  1 
123  Argyle  Street 
14  West  Nile  Street 
183  Queen’s  Drive,  Queen’s  Park 

67  Marquis  Street,  Bridgeton 


2295 

Thomson,  John  Shaw 

W 

16  Watling  Street,  London,  E.C. 

2375 

Taylor,  Gilbert 

W 

46  West  George  Street 

2376 

Thom,  James 

W 

2  Glanworth  Terrace,  Shageniel 
Avenue,  Belfast 

2522 

Taylor,  William 

W 

16  Whitehill  Street,  Dennistoun 

2594 

Telford,  Robert 

W 

Arouca,  Rutherglen 

2605 

Tod,  Alexander  W, 

W 

♦Canada 

2828 

Taylor,  William 

W 

State  Fire  Insurance  Office, 

141  West  George  Street 

2926 

Taylor,  Frederick 

W 

40  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 

2927 

Todd,  Thonias  C. 

W 

30  Gordon  Street 

Year 

of 

Entry. 

1903 

1903 

1903 

1905 

1906 

1908 

1909 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1910 

1911 

1914 

1915 
1915 
1915 

1915 

1917 

1917 

1917 

1917 

1917 

1917 

1917 

1918 

1919 

1919 

1919 

1919 

1919 

1920 
1920 
1920 


1871 

1876 

1876 

1884 

1886 

1887 

1902 

1905 

1905 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


16 


No. 

Year 

on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry. 

2934 

Tod,  Thomas 

w 

99  Derwent  Road,  Palmer’s  Green, 
London,  N. 

1905 

2936 

Taylor,  John 

W 

40  Queen’s  Square,  Strathbungo 

1905 

4011 

Thomson,  Alex. 

W 

5-7  Tureen  Street,  Glasgow 

1915 

4013 

Turnbull,  D.  A. 

W 

J.  Templeton  &  Co.,  Greenhead, 
Glasgow 

1916 

4056 

Telford,  George 

w 

Anchor  Line  (Henderson  Bros.) 
Ltd.,  Yorkhill  Wharf,  Glasgow 

1919 

4067 

Thomas,  William  W. 

w 

48  Craigpark  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1919 

4091 

Tait,  Peter 

w 

127  Stockwell  Street 

1919 

2502 

Urquhart,  Robert  I). 

Maltman 

42  India  Street,  Edinburgh 

1883 

2272 

Winning,  James 

W 

35  Albert  Drive,  Pollokshields 

1870 

2314 

Wallace,  James 

W 

*45  Arlington  Street 

1872 

2419 

Wallace,  John 

W 

1112  Beach  Street,  Richmond  Hill, 
New  York,  U.S.A. 

1878 

2439 

Wright,  Robert  H. 

W 

2  Blythswood  Drive 

1879 

2457 

Wilson,  James 

W 

20  St.  Vincent  Crescent 

1880 

2493 

Wyllie,  David  V. 

W 

6  India  Street 

1882 

2508 

Wilson,  William 

W 

211  Onslow  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1883 

2510 

Wilson,  James,  jun. 

W 

The  Beeches,  Whitchurch-on- 
Thames 

1883 

2511 

Wilson,  Gilbert  T. 

W 

4  Bute  Mansions,  Glasgow 

1883 

2647 

Wallace,  John  B. 

Maltman 

60  Bidston  Road,  Birkenhead 

1892 

2648 

Waddel,  Alex. 

W 

♦Aldworth,  Kilmacolm 

1892 

2650 

Wilson,  Andrew  M. 

Cooper 

12  Lawrence  Street,  Partick 

1892 

2668 

Wright,  David  C. 

Hammer 

87  Meadowpark  Street 

1893 

2689 

Wilson,  Edwin  C, 

W 

The  Beeches,  Whitchurch-on- 
Thames 

1895 

2700 

Wallace,  Arch.  C. 

Hammer 

71  West  Nile  Street 

1895 

2708 

Winning,  Henry  D. 

W 

Park  Avenue,  Chatswood,  North 
Sydney,  Australia 

1895 

2733 

Woodburn,  William  D. 

Flesher 

22  Eldon  Street,  Greenock 

1896 

2760 

Wright,  Daniel 

Hammer 

39  Kolomensko,  Damskaia,  Moscow, 
Russia 

1898 

2784 

Wilkie,  Connal  A. 

W 

72  Tobago  Street 

1901 

2807 

Wright,  John  G.  G. 

W 

*10  New  Burlington  Street,  London  1901 

2823 

Wilson,  Sir  David,  Bart.,  D.L., 

,  D.Sc.  W 

Of  Carbeth,  Killearn 

1902 

2825 

Walker,  Andrew 

Gardener 

43  Glassford  Street 

1902 

2851 

Watson,  Jas.  Muir 

W 

40  Calderwood  Road,  Rutherglen 

1903 

2861 

Watson,  Walter  M. 

W 

Waterloo  Mills,  Silsden,  near 
Keighley,  Yorks 

1903 

2863 

Wilson,  John  Ross 

W 

1  Sweetbriar  Road,  Trinidad 

1903 

2864 

Wilson,  Tom  Taylor 

W 

c/o  Percy  Clough,  The  Knowle, 
Keighley,  Yorks 

1903 

2865 

Wilson,  Robert 

W 

*2  Bray  Road,  Sunderland 

1903 

2866 

Wilson,  Cecil  Guy 

W 

c/o  Moncrieff,  Warren,  Paterson 
&  Co.,  45  West  George  Street 

1903 

2871 

Wishart,  John 

Hammer 

29  St.  Vincent  Place 

1903 

2910 

Woodburn,  Win.  H. 

W 

17  Carlton  Place,  S.S. 

1904 

2924 

Wright,  David 

W 

Wester  Auchinloch,  Lenzie 

1905 

2929 

Weston,  John  H. 

W 

44  Greenbank  Crescent,  Edinburgh 

1905 

2937 

Webster,  Jas.  Manuel 

W 

103  West  George  Street 

1905 

ROLL  OF  MEMBERS. 


17 


No.  Year 


on  the 
Roll. 

Name. 

Craft. 

Address. 

of 

Entry, 

2970 

Walker,  John  B. 

Hammer 

42  Kelvinside  Gardens,  N. 

1906 

2976 

Wylie,  Thos. 

Mason 

6  Aire  Street,  Crossflatts,  Bingley, 

Y  orks 

1907 

2977 

Wyllie,  Robt. 

Mason 

*29  West  George  Street 

1907 

2997 

Wright,  Robt. 

W 

350  Tollcross  Road,  Tollcross 

1908 

3007 

Walker,  W.  A. 

Gardener 

88  Stewarton  Drive,  Cambuslang, 
Lanarkshire 

1908 

3008 

Wilson,  A.  M. 

Maltman 

12  Waterloo  Street 

1908 

3015 

Weatherhead,  Rev.  Jas.,  B.D. 

W 

13  Dudhope  Terrace,  Dundee 

1909 

3063 

Wright,  William  , 

W 

87  Meadowpark  Street 

1912 

3065 

Winning,  Jas. 

W 

20  Route  du  Roi  Albert,  Sainte 
.A.dresse,  Seine  Inferieure, 
France 

1912 

3067 

Watson,  John 

Cordiner 

Viewforth,  Bishopbriggs 

1912 

.3072 

Wallace,  John 

W 

93  Dryburgh  Avenue,  Rutherglen 

1913 

.3087 

Watson,  Ninian 

Cordiner 

Viewforth,  Bishopbriggs 

1915 

4000 

White,  John 

W 

81  Rottenrow,  Glasgow 

1915 

4004 

Wallace,  David 

W 

56  Albany  Street,  Bridgeton 

1915 

4012 

Watson,  John,  jun. 

Cordiner 

Viewforth,  Brackenbrae  Road, 
Bishopbriggs 

1916 

4015 

Wilson,  Jas.  Allan,  M.D. 

W 

3  Annfield  Place,  Dennistoun, 
Glasgow 

1916 

4035 

Wilson,  G.  L. 

W 

300  Swanston  Street 

1917 

4048 

Wallace,  John  C. 

Hammer 

Heathery  Knowe,  Kilmacolm 

1918 

4049 

Wallace,  Alex.  F. 

Hammer 

Heathery  Knowe,  Kilmacolm 

1918 

4071 

Wylie,  John 

W 

24  Douglas  Street 

1919 

2425 

Young,  James 

Skinner 

*52  Dundas  Street,  Kingston 

1878 

2543 

Younger,  George  W. 

W 

14  Prince’s  Square,  Buchanan 
Street 

1885 

2548 

Yuill,  William 

W 

39  Finlay  Drive,  Dennistoun 

1885 

2728 

Young,  Robt.  F. 

W 

Dunkeld,  Stewarton  Drive,  Cam¬ 
buslang 

1895 

2797 

Young,  James  H. 

W 

62  Bothwell  Circus 

1901 

2798 

Young,  R.  M. 

W 

24  Belhaven  Terrace 

1901 

2799 

Young,  Harry  A. 

W 

24  Belhaven  Terrace 

1901 

2801 

Young,  John  R. 

W 

53  Mill  Street,  Bridgeton 

1901 

2803 

Young,  Robert  F. 

W 

8  Claremont  Terrace 

1901 

2847 

Yuill,  Hugh 

W 

c/o  Mrs.  A  Yuill,  43  Ardbeg  Road, 
Rothesay 

1903 

3017 

Young,  D.  H.  L.,  C.B.E.,  D.L. 

w 

William  Street,  Greenhead,  Glasgow 

1909 

3036 

Young,  James 

w 

400  Springfield  Road,  Bridgeton 

1910 

INCORPORATION  OF  WEAVERS  OF  GLASGOW. 


ENTRANCE  FEES  SANCTIONED  BY  TRADES  HOUSE, 

ISth  MAY,  1905. 


1 

Age  Next  Birthday. 

Near-Hand. 

Far-Harld. 

Age  Next 

Birthday. 

Near-Hand. 

Far-Hand. 

1 

£ 

s. 

D. 

£ 

s. 

D. 

£ 

S. 

D. 

£ 

s. 

D. 

25  years 

and  under 

10 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

48  years 

and  under 

21 

10 

0 

66 

0 

0 

26 

10 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

49 

22 

0 

0 

68 

0 

0 

27 

11 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

50 

22 

10 

0 

70 

0 

0 

28 

11 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

51 

23 

0 

0 

72 

0 

0 

29 

12 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

52 

23 

10 

0 

74 

0 

0 

30 

12 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

53 

24 

0 

0 

76 

0 

0  ^ 

31 

13 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

54 

24 

10 

0 

78 

0 

0 

32 

13 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

55 

25 

0 

0 

80 

0 

0 

33 

14 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

56 

25 

10 

0 

82 

0 

0 

34 

14 

10 

0 

40 

0 

0 

57 

26 

0 

0 

84 

0 

0 

35 

15 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

58 

26 

10 

0 

86 

0 

0 

36 

15 

10 

0 

42 

0 

0 

59 

27 

0 

0 

88 

0 

0 

37 

16 

0 

0 

44 

0 

0 

60 

27 

10 

0 

90 

0 

0 

38 

16 

10 

0 

46 

0 

0 

61 

28 

0 

0 

92 

0 

0 

39 

17 

0 

0 

48 

0 

0 

62 

28 

10 

0 

94 

0 

0 

40 

17 

10 

0 

50 

0 

0 

63 

29 

0 

0 

96 

0 

0 

41 

18 

0 

0 

52 

0 

0 

64 

29 

10 

0 

98 

0 

0 

42 

18 

10 

0 

54 

0 

0 

65 

30 

0 

0 

100 

0 

0 

43 

19 

0 

0 

56 

0 

0 

66 

30 

10 

0 

102 

0 

0 

44 

19 

10 

0 

58 

0 

0 

67 

31 

0 

0 

104 

0 

0 

45 

20 

0 

0 

60 

0 

0 

68 

31 

10 

0 

106 

0 

0 

46 

20 

10 

0 

62 

0 

0 

69 

32 

0 

0 

108 

0 

0 

47 

21 

0 

0 

64 

0 

0 

70 

32 

10 

0 

110 

0 

0 

! 

Note. — When  Burgess  Ticket  is  dated  after  1st  January,  1911,  a  Matriculation  Fee  of  £2  2s.  is  charged  in 

addition. 


BURGESS  TICKET  FEES. 


Rayablc  at  Town-Clerk’s  Office. 


Far-Hand  Merchant,  . .  . .  . .  . .  £8  14  6 

,,  Tradesman,  . .  .  .  . .  . .  . .  5  14  6 

Eldest  Son,  Father  living,  . .  . .  . .  . .  . .  116  0 

,,  Father  dead,  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  176 

Younger  Son,  . .  . .  . .  . .  . .  . .  118  6 

Son-in-Law,  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  216 

Duplicate  of  Ticket,  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  076 


ROLL  OF  HONOUR 
AND  SERVICE. 


ROLL  OF  HONOUR 

AND  SERVICE. 


I.— MEMBERS. 


Name. 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

Rank. 

Remarks. 

Alexander,  D.  D. 

R.G.A.  ------- 

Gunner 

Wounded  at  Vpres. 

Allan,  E.  J.  Mozart,  junr. 

4th  R.S.F.  ------ 

Lance-Corporal 

Baillie,  John  George  Augustus  - 

5th  Batt.  Royal  West  Kent  Regiment  - 

Major 

V.D. 

Birrell,  Alex.  -  -  .  - 

2/5th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

Blvth,  Robert  Oswald 

R.G.A.  (T.F.)  ----- 

Lieutenant 

Brodie,  John  M'Clure  -  -  - 

New  Zealand  Medical  Corps  -  -  - 

Private 

Brodie,  Thomson  .  .  . 

Highland  Light  Infantry  -  -  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action, l^thApril, 
15U7.  Mentioned  in 

Brown,  Kenneth  Ashby 

l/5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  (T.) 

Captain  - 

despatches. 

Campbell,  James  Clark 

5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Major 

Invalided 

Cherry,  Gavin  S. 

IVIotor  Transport  ----- 

Sergt. -Major 

Clarke,  Robert  -  -  -  - 

Army  Service  Corps,  52nd  Lowland 

Division  (T.)  ----- 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

D.S.O. 

Craig,  Archibald  Montgomerie 

2/9th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 

Sergeant  - 

Craig,  Hugh  James  -  -  . 

18th  (Service)  Battalion  Highland  Light 
Infantry  ------ 

Lieutenant 

Wounded 

Downie,  Andrew  Marshall, 

Died  of  wounds 
(Gallipoli,  July,  linr)). 

B.Sc.,  A.M.Inst.C.E. 

l/5th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 

Major 

Downie,  Walker, 

M.B.,  F.R.F.P.S.  - 

R.A.M.C.  (T.)  ----- 

Major 

Drysdale,  Alex.  N.  -  -  - 

_ ' 

— 

Military  Cross.  Died  of 
w  ounds. 

Dunn,  Hugh  Reid  -  -  - 

9th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry 

Private 

Dunn,  Herbert,  IM.A.,  B.D., 

l/8th  Battalion  Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Died  on  service 

Dunn,  Bannatvne  -  .  . 

Royal  Naval  Volunteer  Reserve  - 

Lt. -Commander 

Dunn,  John,  Jr.  - 

3/7th  Battalion  Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action 

Easton,  Duncan  Turner 

2/3rd  Lowland  Field  Artillery  Brigade 

Major 

T.D. 

Easton,  William  Cecil,  B.Sc., 

T.D.  Mentioned 

M.Inst.C.E.  -  -  -  - 

Royal  Engineers  (T.F.)  -  -  - 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

in  despatches 

Fleming,  William  Elphinstone 

A.D.C.  68th  Divisional  Artillery  - 

Lieutenant 

Forrest,  John,  M.B.,  Ch.B.  - 

Indian  Medical  Service  -  -  -  - 

Major 

Forrest.  Thomas,  F.R.F.P.S.G.  & 

Senior  Medical  Officer,  Gailes  Area, 

(Brevet)  Lieut.- 

M.B.,  C.M.  -  -  -  - 

R.A.M.C.  (T.)  .  .  -  . 

Colonel 

T.D. 

Forrest,  R.  W.,  M.B.,  C.M. 

R.A.M.C.  (T.)  ----- 

Major 

Fulton,  Angus  M.  -  -  - 

Motor  Transport,  Army  Service  Corps  - 

Private 

Fyfe,  Henry  Halcro  -  -  - 

R.N.^^R.  (Auxiliary  Patrol)  -  -  - 

Lieutenant 

Fyfe,  Walter  Wardlaw 

,  Royal  Flying  Corps  -  -  -  - 

Lieutenant 

Galbraith,  Charles  -  .  . 

Royal  Garrison  Artillery 

Gunner 

Gale,  Robert  -  -  -  . 

R.A.M.C.,  Headquarters  4th  Armv  Corps 

Captain  - 

D.S.O. 

Harvey,  George  Thomson  - 

2nd  Battalion  Royal  Scots  -  -  - 

3rd  Battalion  King’s  Own  Lancaster 
Regiment  -  -  -  -  - 

. 

Captain  - 

Harvey,  Thomas  .  -  . 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Served  with  General  Botha 
in  German  S.W.  Africa. 

22 


MEMBERS — 'Continued. 


Name. 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

Rank. 

Remarks. 

Harvey,  Wilson  -  -  -  - 

H.M.  Hospital  Ship  "Neuralia  ”  - 

4th  Engineer  - 

Hoey,  Samuel  -  -  -  - 

Intelligence,  4th  Army  Corps 

Sergeant  - 

Military  Medal 

Hutton,  Frederick  Robt.  Hughes 

9th  Battalion  Argyll  and  Sutherland 

Highlanders  (T.)  -  -  -  - 

Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action 

Innes,  Gilbert  James 

8th  Battalion  Scottish  Rifles  (T.) 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Innes,  John  R.  - 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  -  -  . 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Kilpatrick,  Daniel  Ross,  M.D. 

R.A.M.C.,  attached  l/5th  Argyll  and 

Sutherland  Highlanders  -  -  - 

Captain  - 

Kinghorn,  Adam  Frederick  - 

R.N.V.R.  ------ 

Lieutenant 

Kirkpatrick,  Hubert  Victor 

3/3rd  Lowland  Brigade  R.F.A.  (T.) 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Lane,  Andrew,  Jr.  - 

2/6th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Legate,  Alex.  Buchanan  Selkirk 

7th  Batt.  Cameron  Highlanders 

Captain  - 

Legate,  Francis  -  -  -  - 

l/5th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 

Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action 

Lindsay,  James  -  -  -  - 

IMotor  Transport,  Army  Service  Corps  - 

Sergeant  - 

Lowndes,  Eric  -  .  -  - 

Tank  Corps  ------ 

2nd  Lieutenant 

T.yle,  James  A.  - 

7th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry 

Captain  - 

Mentioned  in 

despatches 

Lyle,  John  E.  -  -  -  - 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Lieutenant 

Military  Cross 

M'Ewan,  Duncan  Watson  - 

3rd  Battalion  Argyll  and  Sutherland 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Military  Cross 

Highlanders  ----- 

Wounded  at  Gaza 

M'Ewan,  James  Watson 

2nd  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  -  -  - 

Lieutenant 

Wounded  at 

Neuve  Chapelle 

M'Ewan,  Robt.  William 

5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  -  -  - 

Captain  - 

Wounded  at  Cuinchy. 
Killed  in  action. 1-lthApril. 

Macfarlane,  James  G.  -  - 

7th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  -  -  - 

Captain  - 

Wounded  at 

Gallipoli 

M' Intyre,  James  Gordon 

Ayrshire  Yeomanry  (Earl  of  Garrick’s 

M.C.  and  Bar. 
Croix-de-g^uerre. 

Own)  ------ 

Captain  - 

MacLean,  William  ... 

MacLean,  Archibald  Campbell 

Royal  Engineers  ----- 

Captain  - 

Holms,  C.B.E. 

1st  Batt.  Royal  Scots,  Glencorse,  Milton 

Bridge,  Midlothian 

Major 

Mentioned  in 

despatches 

MacLeod,  George  Calder 

9th  Batt.  King’s  Own  Scottish  Borderers 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action, Itith  April. 

M'Nish,  George  -  -  -  - 

2/7th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry, 

Officer  in  Charge  of  Records  - 

Colonel 

C.B.E. ,  T.D. 

Alann,  Robert  Mathers 

5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles,  attached  Argyll 

and  Sutherland  Highlanders  - 

Major 

V.D. 

Manson,  William  Hislop,  M.D.  - 

No.  18  Stationary  Hospital,  Suez  - 

Captain  - 

Monro,  Thos.  Kirkpatrick,  M.D. 

4th  Scottish  General  Hospital,  R.A.M.C. 

(T.)  ------ 

Major 

Morton,  James  Albany 

Scottish  Rifles  ----- 

Private 

Morton,  David  S.  -  -  - 

17th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

V.D.,  C.M.G. 

Wounded.  Meiuioned  in 

Murray,  John  T.  ... 

Army  Service  Corps,  M.T.  -  -  - 

Private 

despatches. 

O’May,  Thos.,  jun.  .  .  . 

1st  Batt.  Scots  Guards  -  -  -  - 

Sergeant  - 

Military  Medal. 

Wounded  at  Ypres. 

Paterson,  J.  Cowan  -  -  . 

2/5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles  -  -  - 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

T.D. 

Pomphrey,  Charles  -  -  - 

Calcutta  Scottish  ----- 

Lieutenant 

Ritchie,  William 

1  /3rd  City  of  Glasgow  Battery,  Royal 

Field  Artillery  -  -  -  - 

Major 

Russell,  James  -  -  -  - 

Royal  Flying  Corps  -  .  -  - 

P)  ivate 

Selkirk,  David  -  -  -  - 

Nyasaland  Volunteer  Reserve 

Private 

Mentioned  in  despatches 

Simpson,  George  Selden 

Royal  Field  Artillery  (T.F.)  -  -  - 

Lieut. -Col.  (T.) 

D.S.O  Seroian  Order  of 
the  White  Eagle. 
Wounded. 

MEMBERS — Continued. 


23 


Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 


6th  Batt.  Gordon  Highlanders  (T.) 

Attached  96th  -Infantry  Brigade  - 

6th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry 

3/6th  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry, 
attached  7th  Corps  School 
7th  Highland  Light  Infantry  -  -  - 

2nd  Batt.  Highland  Light  Infantry 
R.A.H.C.  -  -  - 

4th  R.S.F.  ------ 

9th  Battalion  Highland  Light  Infantry  - 
R.F.A.  -  -  -  -  -  -  ■  - 

5th  Batt.  Cameron  Highlanders 
5th  Res.  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 
11th  Battalion  Royal  Highlanders  (Black 
Watch)  ------ 

9th  O.C.B. . 

Royal  Scots  Fusiliers  -  -  -  - 

8th  Batt.  Cameron  Highlanders 
R.A.IM.C.,  3rd  Field  Squadron,  R.E. 

17th  (Service)  Batt.  Highland  Light 
Infantry  ------ 


Captain  - 

Captain, 
General  List 
Major 


Captain  - 

Lieutenant 

Lieutenant 

Lieutenant 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Private 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Private 

Private 

Lieutenant 
Cadet 
Captain  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 
Captain  - 

Major 


Remarks. 


Mentioned  in  despatches. 
Killed  in  action  at  Neuve 
Chapelle,  13-3-15. 

Military  Cross 


Croix -de-guerre 

Killed  in  action,  1st  Oct., 
lyi8. 


Killed  at  Mons, 
24th  Aug.,  1914 

Wounded.  Mentioned  in 
Despatches.  Military 
Cross. 

Wounded 


24 


II.— SONS  OF  MEMBERS. 


Name. 

Son  of 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

Rank. 

Remarks. 

Aitken,  Robert 

James  G.  Aitken  - 

R.A.M.C.,  attached 

Scottish  Rifles 

Captain  - 

Alexander,  Jas.  Browning, 

Rev.  Dr.  Archibald  B.  D. 

R.A.M.C.,  First  Medical 

M.D.  -  -  -  - 

Alexander 

Officer  of  No.  10 

Hospital,  Rouen 

Captain  - 

Andrew,  William  Monro, 

James  Andrew 

3/9th  Battalion  Highland 

Prisoner  of 

M.A.  (Oxon) 

Light  Infantry 

Lieutenant 

War 

Arthur,  The  Hon.  James 

Lord  Glenarthur  - 

Ayrshire  Yeomanry,  2nd 

Cecil  -  -  -  - 

Lowland  Mounted  Brig. 

Statt-Captain  - 

Arthur,  Thomas  Alan 

James  Arthur 

1st  Ayrshire  Yeomanry 

Lieutenant 

Baillie,  Andrew  Steven 

Tames  Baillie 

1st  Garrison  Batt.  H.L.I. 

Sergeant  - 

. 

Baillie,  Harold  Montagu  - 

Do. 

Machine  Gun  Corps 

Corporal  - 

l'6th  Sept , 

Baillie,  William  Anderson 

Major  J.  G.  A.  Baillie 

2nd  Batt.  Suffolk  Regt.  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Wounded  at  the 

Black,  Arthur  Bloomfield  - 

Late  George  Black 

Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Blackie,  Walter  Graham  - 

Walter  W.  Blackie,  B.Sc. 

3rd  Lowland  Brigade 

R.F.A.,  attached  1st 

Lowland  Brigade  R.F.A. 

Brown,  T.  D.  S. 

Frank  H.  Brown  - 

9th  Battalion  Royal  Scots 

Fusiliers  -  -  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Buchanan,  Robt.  Johnstone 

William  Buchanan 

Royal  Field  Artillery,  3rd 

Lowland  Division  - 

Bombardier 

Caldwell,  John  Stewart 

John  Caldwell 

Royal  Engineers  - 

Corporal  - 

Carrick,  John  McA.  - 

Seaforth  Highlanders  of 

Canada  -  -  - 

Private 

Clarke,  James  Alexander  - 

William  Clarke 

Army  Service  Corps 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Cochrane,  Gordon 

S.  P.  Cochrane 

Army  Service  Corps,  52nd 

Division  -  -  - 

Sergt. -Major 

Crawford,  Uavid  M'Rarlane 

David  Crawford 

Royal  Engineers  - 

Sapper 

Crawford,  James  Thomson 

Do. 

Royal  Engineers  - 

Sapper 

Wounded  at 

Gallipoli. 

Crosland,  Raymond  Stanley 

Stanley  P.  Crosland 

Royal  Horse  Guards  (Blue) 

Trooper  - 

Cubic,  Robert  Wilson 

Alex.  Cubie  -  -  - 

Royal  Flying  Corps 

Stores  Clerk 

Cubic,  James  Murray 

Do. 

Royal  Navy  -  -  - 

Cook 

Cunningham,  David  - 

James  Cunningham 

2nd  Batt.  Yorkshire  Regt. 

2nd  Lieutenant 

17th  Oct.,  1917. 

Dickson,  William  Martin, 

Jr.  - 

W.  M.  Dickson 

Royal  Flying  Corps 

1st  A.M.  - 

Downie,  Fred.  H. 

John  S.  Downie 

23rd  (Service)  Batt.  The 

Welsh  Regiment 

Captain  - 

patches.  O.B.E. 

Downie,  Nelson,  M.A.,  i.C.S. 

John  S.  Downie 

Indian  Army  Reserve  of 

Officers,  attached  l/4th 

Gurkhas  .  .  . 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Died  of  wounds, 
17th  May,  1917. 

Downie,  Thomas  Taylor, 

M.B.,  C.M.  (Glas.) 

Late  Robert  Downie 

Victoria  Scottish  - 

Major 

Downie,  Jas.  Wallace 

I. ate  John  A.  Downie 

9th  Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Killed  in  action. 

Downie,  Jas.  Maitland, 

Dr.  Walker  Downie 

R.A.M.C.,  Mesopotamia 

B.A.  (Cantab), M.R.C.S. 

Expeditionary  Eorce  - 

Captain  - 

:;8th  Oct.,  1918. 

Drysdale,  Livingstone 

James  T.  Drysdale 

S.A.M.C.,  German  East 

Africa  -  -  - 

Lieutenant 

Drysdale,  Alex.  Nicholson 

Late  John  W.  W.  Drysdale 

17th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Duncan,  William  Jolly 

Robert  Duncan 

Army  Service  Corps 

Private 

Dunn,  Frederick 

Late  James  Dunn 

Tank  Corps  -  -  - 

Captam  - 

Wounded  and 
awarded  M.C. 

Forrest,  Hugh,  M.B.,  Ch.B. 

Late  Robt.  W.  h'orrest. 

1/ 1st  Lowland  Field  Ambu-, 

M.D. 

lance  R.A.iM.C.  (I.)  ! 

Captain  - 

Gemmell,  Adam 

Adam  Gemmell 

Army  Service  Corps  (T.) 

Staff  Sgt.-Major 

Gemmell,  Alex.  Ramsay  - 

Do. 

Royal  Field  Artillery  (T.) 

Bat.  Sgt. -Major 

SONS  OF  MEMBERS — Continued. 


25 


Name. 

Son  of 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

•  Rank. 

Gibson,  Arthur  Blair 

George  Gibson 

15th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Captain  - 

Graham,  Peter 

David  S.  Graham  - 

5th  Battalion  Argyll  and 

Sutherland  Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Green,  John  Edward 

Late  Edward  H.  Green 

Glasgow  Yeomanrv 

Private 

Green,  George  Hamilton  - 

Late  Edward  H.  Green 

23rd  Batt.  Royal  Fusiliers 
(Sportsman’s  Battalion) 

Private 

Greenlees,  Thomas  Tertius 

Thomas  Greenlees,  Jr.  - 

2/6th  Batt.  Argyll  and 

Sutherland  Highlanders 

Lieutenant 

Greenlees,  Robt.  Gumming 

Do. 

2/6th  Batt.  Argyll  and 

Sutherland  Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Halliday,  A.  B. 

Late  Geo.  Halliday 

Roval  Garrison  .\rtillery 

Gunner 

Hamilton,  Charles  Ernest  - 

Late  James  Hamilton  - 

2/6th  Battalion  Highland 

Hamilton,  James 

Light  Infantry 

Lieutenant 

Robert  Hamilton  - 

1  /4th  Batt.  Royal  Scots 

Fusiliers  -  -  - 

Captain  - 

Hunter,  Edward 

Late  John  Hunter  - 

1st  Ayrshire  R.H.A. 

Captain  - 

Hunter,  John  Mair  - 

Do. 

2/4th  Royal  Scots  Fusiliers 

Major 

Hunter,  Thomas  Mair 

Do. 

H.M.  xM.L.  216,  Royal 

Naval  Vol.  Reserve 

Lieutenant 

Hutton,  John  Dick  - 

Late  James  Hutton 

2nd  Batt.  Cameron  High- 

landers  -  -  - 

Corporal  - 

Inglis,  Lawrence  Alex. 

Lawrence  R.  Inglis 

Lanarkshire  Imperial 

Innes,  Frederick 

Yeomanry 

Trooper  - 

Gilbert  Innes 

5th  Battalion  Cameron 

Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Innes,  Thomas  R.  - 

Do. 

5th  Battalion  Cameron 

Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Kedie,  William  Thomas  - 

Late  Robert  Kedie,  T.P., 

1st  Battalion  The  Black 

Kinghorn,  Adam  F.  - 

D.L. 

Watch  (42nd  Royal 
Highlanders)  - 

Captain  - 

John  P.  Kinghorn  - 

R.N.V.R. 

Sub-Lieutenant 

Kinghorn,  John  Pittilla  - 

Do. 

H.M.S.  "  Coleen  ” 

Lieut.,  R.N.V.R. 

Kinghorn,  Arthur  Archi- 

Do. 

17th  (Service)  Batt.  High- 

bald  Agnew 

land  Light  Infantry 

Private 

Kinghorn,  Thos.  Alexander 

Do. 

5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Private 

Kyd,  Alfred  R.  - 

Alexander  Kyd 

Royal  Flying  Corps 

Leckie,  Robert,  D.S.O., 

Canadian  Government’s 

D.S.C.,  D.F.C.  - 

Late  Sam.  Leckie  - 

Air  Service 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

Logan,  David  -  -  - 

David  Logan  -  -  - 

15th  Batt.  Argyll  and 
Sutherland  Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Macfarlane,  William  Muir 

Ferguson  -  -  - 

Late  iMalcolm  Macfarlane 

H.M.S.  "  Ebro  ”  - 

Lieut.,  R.N.R. 

M'Cowan,  Hew 

David  M'Cowan 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Lieutenant 

M'Cowan,  D.  J.  Cargill  - 

Do. 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Lieutenant 

M'Crone,  Robt.  W.  - 

Edward  M' Crone  - 

400th  Highland  Field  Coy. 

Royal  Engineers  (T.) 

Captain  - 

M'Kenzie,  Malcolm  R.  IM.  - 

Alexander  M'Kenzie 

52nd  Lowland  Division 

Cycling  Corps 

Private 

Maclay,  James  W.  - 

W.  P.  Maclay 

l/7th  Battalion  Scottish 

Rifles  -  -  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Maclay,  Ebenezer 

The  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Jos. 

Paton  Maclay,  Bart. 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Lieutenant 

Maclay,  Wm.  Strang 

Do. 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Remarks. 


Mentioned  in 

despatches. 
Military  Cross. 


Killed  in 

action 


Wounded 

Wounded 


Killed,  21st  Aug. 
1915,  in  Gallipoli. 


Invalided 


Killed  in  action, 
l.'3rd  April,  1917, 


Killed  in  action  at 
Dardanelles,  2»th 
June,  1915. 

Mentioned  in 

despatches. 
Croix  de  Guerre. 
Military  Cross. 

Wounded  at  Galli 
poll  13th  Dec.,  1915 

Killed,  28th  June 
1916,  in  Gallipoli. 

Killed  in  action, 
11th  April,  1918. 
Died  of  wounds. 


26 


SONS  OF  MEMBERS — Continued. 


Name. 

Son  of 

.Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

1 

Rank. 

MacNaughton,  John 

Rev.  Geo.  F.  A.  Mac- 

1 

j  H.Q.,  1st  Canadian  Divi- 

Naughton 

!  sion  _  _  - 

^  Captain  - 

MacNaughton,  Geo. 

Do. 

1  /5th  Battalion  Highland 

Stewart  Burns 

Light  Infantrv 

I.ance-Corporal 

Manson,  Andrew  Davie 

Late  A.  D.  Manson 

[  9th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

■  Private 

Mason,  Robert  Wyllie 

Sir  Thos.  Mason  - 

j  Army  Service  Corps 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Millen,  James  -  -  - 

James  A.  Millen  - 

J  9th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Millen,  John  Craig  - 

Do. 

9th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Mowat,  John  MacLellan  - 

Joseph  G.  Mowat  - 

1 1  th  (Service)  Battalion 

North  Stafford  Regt. 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Miller  John  .  .  - 

William  Miller 

Royal  Engineers  - 

Private 

Morgan,  John  M., 

Henry  Morgan 

R.A.M.C.,  M.O.,8th  Batt. 

Captain  - 

M.B.,  Ch.B.,  D.P.H.  - 

Royal  Scots  - 

Morgan,  George  J.  B. 

Henry  Morgan 

18th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Morgan,  Robert  Wilson  - 

Do. 

7th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Private 

Muir,  William  Angus 

Rev.  William  Muir 

4th  Battalion  Royal  Scots 

Fusiliers  (T.)  - 

Lieutenant 

Newstead,  Andrew  - 

Thos.  Newstead 

1/4  The  Royal  Scots 

Private 

Paterson,  John  Agar 

Wm.  Morison  Paterson  - 

2nd  Batt.  Bedford  Regt. 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Place,  James  Douglas 

James  Place  - 

2nd  Middlesex  Regt. 

Lieutenant 

Pollock  Alexander  Norman, 

Rev.  John  Pollock 

H.M.S.  “  Crescent  ’’ 

Surgeon  - 

M.B.Ch.B.  - 

Pollock,  Paul  Gilchrist 

Do. 

14th  Batt.  Royal  Irish 

Rifles  .  -  - 

Lance-Corporal 

Rae,  James  -  .  . 

William  Rae  -  -  - 

Transport  Service  - 

Engineer  - 

Rae,  William  .  .  - 

William  Rae  - 

Army  Service  Corps, 

Mechanical  Transport 
Section  .  .  - 

Engineer  - 

Reid,  David  Rose 

Late  John  Reid 

12th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Corporal  - 

Reid,  Hugh  -  -  . 

Robb,  John  George  - 

George  L.  Reid 

John  Robb  -  -  - 

R.A.M.C.,  2nd  L.F.A.  - 
9th  Battalion  Highland 

Private 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Robb,  James  Smith 

Do. 

9th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Sandeman,  Harry  B. 

B.  Sandeman 

9th  Battalion  Argyll  and 
Sutherland  Highlanders 

Lieutenant 

Sandeman,  David  Charles 

Do. 

British  Red  Cross 

Motor  Ambu- 

lance  Driver 

Sandeman,  Frank  Watt  - 

Do. 

9th  Battalion  Highland 
Light  Infantry 

H.M.S.  "  Benbow  '' 

Corporal  - 

Scott,  Thomas,  Jr.  - 

Thomas  Scott 

A.B. 

Sloan,  William  Newlands  - 

George  Sloan 

8th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Captain  - 

Sloan,  George  Findlay 

Do. 

John  Bogle  Smith 

2/8th  Batt.  Argyll  and 
Sutherland  Highlanders 
16th  Battalion  Highland  ' 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Smith,  John  -  -  - 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Smith,  David  Gregg 

Do. 

5th  Batt.  Scottish  Rifles 

Private 

Remarks. 


Military 

Cross 


Military  Cross. 


I  Wounded  at  Fal- 
feinontin,  France, 

I  3Ist  Au^fust,  iyi6. 

I  Wounded  on  10th 
July  and  7th  Oct., 
1015,  at  Dardanelles 


I  Killed  in  action. 
I  3Ist  Oct..  1914, near 
1  Klein,  Zillelseke. 

I  Wounded  at  Loos 
27th  Sept.  1915. 


Missing  1st  July, 
1916,  SomnieValley 


Killed  at 

Loos 


Twice 

wounded 


Wounded 


SONS  OF  MEMBERS — Continued. 


27 


Name. 

Son  of 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

Rank. 

Smith,  Ralph  Gardiner 

William  Smith,  Jr. 

6th  Battalion  Highland 

Light  Infantry 

Private 

Steele,  George  Tames 

Late  Robt.  Innes  Steele 

Royal  Engineers  - 

Corporal  - 

Steven,  Stanley  Watson 

Alexander  F.  Steven 

Lowland  Division  Cyclist 

Ferguson  - 

Company 

Private 

Steven,  James  Miller 

Late  Robert  Muir  Steven 

Mechanical  Transport, 

Army  Service  Corps  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Sturgeon,  William  A. 

Late  William  Sturgeon  - 

R.G.A.  (S.R.) 

Captain  - 

Sutherland,  Geo.  Stewart  - 

George  Sutherland 

4th  Battalion  Middlesex 

Regiment 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Telford,  William  Danskin 
Thomson,  James  Albert 

Robert  Telford 

London  Scottish  - 

Private 

Raymond  - 

Late  James  Thomson 

5th  Battalion  Yorkshire 

Regiment  (T.) 

Lieut. -Colonel  - 

iillie,  Wm.  Kingsley 

Late  William  J.  Tillie  - 

8th  Batt.  Royal  West 

Kent  Regiment 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Tillie,  Arnold  Reed  - 

Do. 

8th  Batt.  (Cameronians) 

Scottish  Rifles  (at¬ 
tached  Royal  Flying 
Corps)  -  -  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Tillie,  Talbot  Lee 

Do. 

8th  Batt.  (Cameronians) 

Scottish  Rifles 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Turnbull,  Alex. 

D.  A.  Turnbull 

2nd  Corps  Cyclist  Batt.  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Walker,  George  Turnbull, 

Wm.  A.  Walker 

R.A.M.C.,  attached  9th 

M.B. -  -  -  - 

Battalion  Highland 
Light  Infantry 

Captain  - 

Walker,  Wm.  Andrew,  M.B. 

Do. 

R.A.M.C.  (attached  19th 

Captain  - 

F.A.B.)  - 

Wallace,  John  C.  - 

A.  C.  Wallace 

Royal  Engineers  (S.R.) 

(attached  R.F.C.)  - 

Lieutenant 

Watson,  William  Robert  - 

T.  M.  Watson 

18th  Batt.  London  Irish 

Regiment 

Private 

Webster,  James  Cooper  - 

James  Manuel  Webster 

5th  Reserve  Battalion 

Argyll  and  Sutherland 
Highlanders 

Captain 

Webster,  Donald  Manuel  • 

James  Manuel  Webster 

R.N.V.R. 

Midshipman 

Wilson,  David,  Jr.  - 

David  Wilson 

Argyll  and  Sutherland 

Highlanders 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Wilson,  James  Ritchie 

William  Wilson 

Army  Service  Corps 

Private 

Wilson,  William 

James  Wilson 

27th  Light  Cavalry,  India 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Wilson,  Daniel  Graham  - 

Andrew  Millar  Wilson  - 

2/9th  Battalion  Durham 

Wilson,  James  D.  - 

Light  Infantry 

2nd  Lieutenant 

James  WiFon 

M.T.,  A.S.C.  - 

Private 

Wilson,  R.  D.  - 

James  Wilson 

2nd  Battalion  Argyll  and 

Sutherland  Highlanders 

Private 

Wright,  Robert  Harvey  - 

Robert  H.  Wright 

3rd  Lowland  Division 

R.F.A.  - 

2nd  Lieutenant 

Wright,  William  Mackay  - 

Do. 

3rd  Lowland  Division 

R.F.A.  - 

Bombardier 

Wright,  Frank  Moffat 

Do. 

Lowland  Divisional  Engi- 

neers  _  _  _ 

Driver 

Young,  Wm.  B.  -  - 

R.  Fairlie  Young  - 

Machine  Gun  Corps 

Lance-Corporal 

Young,  Arthur 

D.  H.  L.  Young,  C.B.E., 

D.L., 

8th  Scottish  Rifles 

Major 

Young,  Eric  T.  -  - 

Do. 

Do.  -  - 

Captain  - 

Remarks. 


Died  on  Service  at 
the  Dardanelles. 


Wounded 


Wounded  in  action, 
13th  October.  1915, 
in  France,  and  died 
same  day. 

D.S.o. 

Twice  wounded  at 
Ypres.  Killed  in 
action,  27-5-ly. 

Military  Cross 


Wounded,  Feb., 
Killed  in 
action,  May,  1916. 
Wounded  at  Dar 
dandles ,  28th  June 
1915. 


Mentioned  in  des¬ 
patches.  Military 
Cross. 


D.C.M 


Killed  in  action, 
27th  Ang.,  1916. 


Mentioned  in 

despatches 


I  Killed  at  the 
I  Dardanelles 


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III.— SONS-IN-LAW  OF  MEMBERS. 


Name. 


Brown,  John  Percival, 
M.B.,  Ch.B. 

Campbell,  Rev.  John 
Carswell,  Harvie  G.  - 
Cook,  Arthur  W. 

Darling,  James  Walker, 
M.B.,  Ch.B. 

Dawson,  Frederick  George 
Dow,  Peter  W. 


Finlay,  Ian  Archibald 
Leschallas,  Beaumont  Pige 
Lewis,  Charles  Vernon 


Marriott,  Horace  Cary 
Harris  .  -  - 


Matheson,  John 
Menzies,  John  - 

Tattersall,  John 

Townsend,  Ronald  Travis  - 

Weir,  Cecil  M‘ Alpine 

Whitton,  Peter  I. 


SON-IN-LAW  OF 

Regiment  or  Ship,  &c. 

Rank. 

Remarks. 

Rev.  Dr.  Archibald  B.  D. 
Alexander 

Head  of  Hospital,  Bacup 

Knight  of  St.  John 
of  Jerusalem,  Red 

Henry  Morgan 

Chaplain  (Presbyterian) 

Major 

Cross. 

John  S.  Downie 

8th  Scottish  Rifles  - 

Captain  - 

Military 

John  Fraser  -  -  - 

3/7 th  Battalion  Highland 

Cross 

Arthur  Kay  -  -  - 

Light  Infantry 
Attached  1st  Battalion 

Sergeant  - 

Military 

Scots  Guards  - 

Captain  - 

Cross 

John  P.  Kinghorn 

1st  Battalion  Monmouth¬ 
shire  Rifles 

Captain  - 

Prisoner  of 

Alexander  M'Kenzie 

l/7th  Battalion  Scottish 
Rifles  -  .  - 

Private 

war 

Wounded.  Died 

Lord  Glenarthur  - 

2nd  Brig.  Scottish  Horse 

Brigade-Major  - 

on  service,  .27th 
September,  191.5. 

George  Sloan  -  -  - 

10th  Batt.  Royal  Berks. 

Captain  - 

Rev.  Dr.  Archibald  B.  D. 
Alexander 

11th  Batt.  South  Wales 
Borderers 

Lieutenant 

Died  on  service. 

The  late  W.  G.  Wilson 

J.  Manuel  Webster 

3rd  Batt.  South  Stafford 
Regiment,  attached 
1st  South  Stafford 
Regiment 

R.N.V.R. 

Captain  - 
Lieutenant 

I8th  Aug.,  I9l5. 

James  Sutherland  - 

Edward  M'Crone  - 

C.  J.  MacLean 

9th  Battalion  Highland 
Light  Infantry 

16th  Batt.  Lancashire 
Fusiliers  -  -  - 

Canadians  and  Royal  Fly- 

Major 

Captain  - 

Mentioned  in  des- 

mg  Corps 

Captain  - 

ruary,  1917.  Killed 

Vh  P.  Maclay 

l/7th  Battalion  Scottish 

in  action. 

Rifles  -  -  - 

Captain  - 

Wounded 

Late  Robt.  W.  Forrest, 

l/7th  Battalion  Scottish 

Killed  in  action. 

M.D. 

Rifles  .  -  - 

Captain  - 

in  Gallipoli,  2stn 
June.  1915. 

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